aims-convert 1.2

Extract information from AIMS detailed roster

AIMS Roster Data Extraction

This will primarily be of interest to easyJet pilots. It extracts data from a “detailed roster” as can be downloaded from AIMS. Pilots from other airlines that use AIMS may also find this useful — it has only been tested against the files from easyJet’s version of AIMS (as that is all that I have access to), so its utility will depend on whether whatever version is being used by your airline produces sufficiently similar output.

As well as extracting the data from the AIMS roster, the registration and type of the aircraft operating the sectors is looked up, and a night flying calculation is carried out.

The three main formats that the data can be extracted to are electronic Flight Journal (eFJ), iCalendar and CSV.

An eFJ is a text file that can be used to store personal flight data in an intuitive non-tabular form. Full details of the format of this text file can be found at https://hursts.org.uk/efjdocs/format.html, and an online tool capable of converting this format to an FCL.050 compliant logbook in HTML format can be found at https://hursts.org.uk/efj.

The iCalendar format can be imported into most calendar applications. There is an option to include full day events such as days off. This is useful for managing and sharing your future roster.

The CSV format is for keeping logbook data in a spreadsheet.

The package provides entry points for a command line interface, a Tk based graphical interface and an AWS lambda function. The AWS function is hooked up to a website at https://hursts.org.uk/aims, which requires no installation, just a browser. The other two interfaces require the installation of a Python interpreter.