Private pilots

Your pilot logbook, without the faded ink.

Paper pilot logbooks next to a tablet showing every flight on a world map

Decades of paper logbooks — every type, every leg, every crew, every weather note — scanned once and turned into a searchable, mappable archive. Filter by aircraft type, by instructor, by airfield. See every route you've flown on a single map. No retyping.

The problem

Your paper logbook is a legal document, a career document, and an archive of every good and bad hour in the sky — and it lives as ink that fades. The five-year-old entries are already hard to read.

Every time someone asks about your tailwheel time, or your night hours on that type, or when you last flew into LFMN, you end up flipping pages. The information is all there. It is just not findable.

And none of it plots on a map. Your first solo. That terrifying diversion. The family holiday leg across France. Paper logbooks tell you numbers — they don't show you the shape of your flying life.

How BrainCopy solves it

Scan each logbook page or spread

Photograph each page with your phone (or a scanner). Upload the batch. BrainCopy auto-rotates, splits two-page spreads into left and right halves, and enhances contrast for the OCR pipeline.

AI reads the handwriting — including the bad entries

Claude-based OCR was built specifically for densely-written logbook grids: date columns, registration, type, PIC/dual, arrivals and departures, duration. It handles faded ink and the rushed last-leg-of-the-day scrawl. Confidence is marked per field so you know what to double-check.

Cross-reference with GPS-tagged photos

If you have photos from your flights, BrainCopy matches photo dates/locations to logbook entries. A route the OCR was uncertain about can be corrected by the actual photo's GPS. The system literally checks its own work against ground-truth coordinates.

Every leg on a map

Every successfully parsed leg draws a line on the map — start, end, date, aircraft. Decades of flying become one picture. Filter by year, type, PIC/dual, or country. Your flying life as a visual.

Query in plain language

"How many hours do I have on a C172 in the last five years?" "Every IFR leg I've flown into Italy." "All flights with Anders as instructor." Ask in natural language. Export to a spreadsheet if you need it for a rating or an insurer.

What you'll actually see

Beta price for Private pilots

50% off the €10/month subscription, forever, for pilots who join during the beta. Your discount never expires.

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FAQ

How accurate is the OCR on old faded entries?
Very accurate on recent, clearly-written pages — typically 95%+. On faded 30-year-old ink it drops, but each uncertain field is flagged, and you can cross-reference with photo GPS where available. You review and correct directly in BrainCopy; corrections train the system for your handwriting.
Is this legal for log-time purposes?
Your paper logbook remains the legal primary document — BrainCopy is a digital index and archive on top of it. For ratings and checkrides, you still present your paper log. What BrainCopy gives you is findability and analytics, not a legal substitute.
What formats can I upload?
Phone photos (JPG/HEIC), scanned PDFs, multi-page documents. BrainCopy handles landscape two-page spreads automatically. Logbook scans go into a dedicated OCR pipeline distinct from diary scans.
Can I export my data?
Yes — CSV export of parsed legs, GeoJSON export of mapped routes, full archive export of original scans. You keep your data; we don't lock you in.
What does it cost?
Subscription €10/month (€5/month forever with PILOTS50) covers capture and storage. The one-time OCR run on a full career logbook is typically €25–€100 depending on number of pages. Cross-referencing with your photo library is extra if you opt in.
I also keep a digital logbook (LogTen, MyFlightbook, etc.)
Good — they solve the forward-facing "log this flight" problem. BrainCopy solves the backward-facing "parse everything I already wrote on paper" problem. You can also export from those apps into BrainCopy to have one unified archive for legs, photos, and narrative.
What about my aviation photos?
Imported with GPS and date. They get matched against logbook legs, placed on the map, and surfaced in the right chapter of any printed photobook you generate.

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Who else uses BrainCopy

Different people, same problem: too many memories scattered across too many places.