FolioFly

Your logbook on your phone. Your renewal forms filled in for you.

Made for South African NPL pilots and aircraft owners. Log a flight once, and your logbook and your aircraft's flight folio are both filled in. I set it up for you, and you get personal help to get started.

The logbook is free. The full version, with your renewal forms filled in for you, is R980 a year, less than R100 a month.

How to get started

What it does for you

Less paperwork, fewer surprises

Log once: logbook and folio done

Type in the date, route and hours after you land. Your logbook and your aircraft's flight folio are filled in together: folio number, airframe hours, landings, oil and fuel. Defects go on the right folio page.

Always know your hours

Pilot and dual hours for each type of aircraft you fly. Print your logbook pages whenever you need them.

A reminder before things run out

Your licence, medical, Authority to Fly and radio licence. It also tells you if you're not current to carry passengers.

Renewal forms filled in for you

When it's renewal time, your SACAA forms come out with your details and hours already in. You just check and sign.

Your own copy, always

FolioFly reminds you once a week to save a backup. On your laptop, one button gives you a single file with your logbook, your records and the photos of your documents. Keep it on a memory stick or your cloud drive.

See it

What it looks like

The FolioFly screen for logging a flight on a phone: registration, date, route, hours, landings, fuel and remarks, with a Log Flight button
This is the whole screen for logging a flight.
An aircraft flight folio page filled in automatically: each flight's date, registration, flight time, airframe hours, landings, oil and fuel, with a defect and its remedial action below
The aircraft's folio fills itself in as you log each flight, with defects on the right page.
SACAA form CA 62-02 with the Renewal and LSA boxes ticked and the pilot's licence number, name, nationality, email, address and contact number already filled in
Your renewal form, filled in for you. Check it and sign.
FolioFly reminders: licence expires in 30 days, medical expires in 19 days, Authority to Fly due in 25 days, and the next annual inspection due by date or airframe hours
A reminder before your licence, medical or Authority to Fly runs out, and when the next inspection is due.
SACAA form CA 44-01, the annual maintenance review, with the registration ZU-ABC, aircraft, engine and propeller, airframe and Hobbs hours, hours in the last 12 months, and the engine's serial number, hours and date already filled in
The annual maintenance form (CA 44-01), with your aircraft's details and hours filled in.
SACAA form CA 24-03, the Authority to Fly renewal, with the aircraft's category, manufacturer, serial number, weights, engine and propeller details filled in and the right boxes ticked
The Authority to Fly renewal form (CA 24-03), filled in from your aircraft's records.
FolioFly totals: total time, pilot and dual hours, landings and flights logged, and passenger currency showing current until a date
Your hours always added up, and whether you're current to carry passengers.

Screens show sample details, not a real pilot.

Easy to use

If you can send a WhatsApp, you can use FolioFly

  • Nothing to download. It opens on your phone like a website. I'll show you how to put it on your home screen so it's one tap away.
  • I set it up with you. I create your account, help you add your aircraft and your hours from your paper logbook, and go through your first flight with you.
  • Help when you need it. Stuck on something? Send me a message and I'll sort it out.
  • Works at the airfield. Open FolioFly before you lose signal, and a flight you log is kept on your phone and sent when you're back in range.

Price

The logbook is free. The full version is R980 a year.

Free logbook
R0 always
  • Your logbook and folio hours
  • Passenger currency check
  • One aircraft with its folio
  • Print and download your records
Full version
R980 a year, less than R100 a month
  • Everything in the free logbook
  • Renewal forms filled in for you
  • Reminders before your licence, medical, Authority to Fly and radio licence run out
  • Licence and Authority to Fly records
  • Keep photos of your documents
  • More than one aircraft

You can start with the free logbook today. Everything you enter is kept, so when you move to the full version your hours are already there for your renewal forms.

Getting started

Three steps, and I help with each one

  1. Ask me to set you upFill in your name and email address in the form at the bottom of this page. I'll create your account and you'll get an email with a link to choose your password.Fill in the form at foliofly.co.za/about, or send your name and email address to hello@foliofly.co.za. I'll create your account and you'll get an email with a link to choose your password.
  2. Add your aircraft and hoursAdd some past flights too if you'd like to get familiar with the app. I'll help if you need it.
  3. Log your next flightFrom then on your hours, reminders and currency look after themselves.

Renewal forms

The SACAA forms it fills in

FolioFly checks SACAA's website regularly for new forms and fees, and is updated to match. Please check the current ones there too.

Questions

Things pilots ask

I'm not very good with computers.

That's fine, it was made with that in mind. I'll set it up with you and show you the few buttons you need. Logging a flight is one screen. There's also a Help tab inside the app, and a printable guide.

Do I have to stop using my paper logbook?

No. You can keep both, but it's not necessary. Your totals from the paper logbook are entered once, and FolioFly carries on from there.

Can I use my phone?

Yes. You can use your phone or your laptop. It's simplest to record your flight on your phone straight after you land.

Can other people see my records?

No. Your records are private to your account. If you'd like help, you can let me see them, without being able to change anything, from the Pilot page. It switches off by itself after 7 days, or you can stop it sooner. Otherwise I only see when you last signed in and how many flights and aircraft you have, not what's in them.

What if I lose my phone, or something goes wrong?

Your records are kept online in your account, so a lost phone doesn't lose them. Sign in on another one. FolioFly also reminds you to save your own backup copy, on a laptop: one button gives you a file with your logbook, records and document photos.

What do I get if I pay?

The full version, for R980 a year: your renewal forms filled in for you, reminders before things run out, your licence and Authority to Fly records, photos of your documents, and more than one aircraft. If you stop paying, you keep the free logbook. Your other records stay there for you to look at, and nothing is deleted.

Get in touch

Fill this in and I'll get you set up. You'll get an email with a link to choose your password.

Or send your name and email address to:

Fill in the short form at foliofly.co.za/about, or send your name and email address to:

hello@foliofly.co.za

Already have an account? Sign in at foliofly.co.za

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