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Logbook and compliance

The European regulation (EU Reg. 2019/947, AMC1 UAS.SPEC.050) requires complete records, kept for three years and protected from tampering. Here the requirement is the architecture, not goodwill.

How it fills in

Every flight becomes a logbook entry: duration, places, pilot, batteries mounted, anomalies, its operation order (ODO/TO) reference if protocolled. Entries come from the mission, from CSV import of flight logs, or from DJI Cloud ingest (for connected accounts). You review telemetry on the map, flight by flight, with the replay.

Append-only with hash-chain

Entries are never rewritten and never deleted: each entry is chained to the previous one with a SHA-256 hash, so any tampering visibly breaks the chain. Mistakes are corrected with linked amendments — visible, never silent. Deletion within the three-year retention window is blocked by the system itself.

QTB per aircraft

Every drone has its aircraft technical logbook (QTB) as a PDF: the aircraft's identity, flights with pilot and protocol, maintenance, batteries with cycles, anomalies highlighted. It is the export to show at an inspection, with the chain head hash printed on the document.

Pilot logbook

Every pilot has a personal page: career hours, this year's flights, activity over the last 90 days (the basis of currency), with PDF and CSV export to prove experience — useful for renewals.

Public verification

Mission reports carry a verification QR: whoever receives the document can re-check online, at any time, that the flights exist and that the hash-chain is intact, and compare the SHA-256 fingerprints of the delivered files. The verification page is Dronetrake-branded: the authority of the proof belongs to the platform, and the operator cannot alter it.

Incidents and the dossier

If something happens, you open an incident (type, severity, link to mission/flight/drone/pilot, evidence with fingerprints). The incident dossier assembles in one click: a signed PDF with the logbook entry and its hash, the validity of the pilot's certificate at the time of the flight, signed checklists, weather, telemetry and evidence — ready for the insurer or the authority.