From paper logbooks to a tablet in my back pocket, what a shift

I started in this trade back in '98 at a little shop outside Tulsa, and every wire, every connector, every damn screw got written into a paper logbook with a pencil. Now I do my whole daily inspection on a 10 inch tablet, and the data syncs to the hangar office before I even put my coffee down. The old way took forever and my handwriting was garbage anyway, but I kind of miss the feel of flipping through those pages on a slow Friday. Does anyone else keep a paper backup for critical checks, or am I the only dinosaur left in the hanger?

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parker_davis411mo ago

You ever had a buddy who swore by his paper logbook and refused to switch? Mine kept his for years until a grease smudge hid a squawk he'd written, and the tablet version would've flagged it right away. He still prints a paper copy at the end of each week, just for peace of mind.

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