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service provider located close to where the fledgling company’s customers are.
“We have facilities located near all of the major concen- trations of business aircraft so the operator can drive their records over there, or we can do it via a bonded courier,” Illian explained. “But, that doesn’t cover every owner, so we have our own team of A&Ps who travel to the opera- tor’s facility to handle the scanning. We also have clients who have already scanned all of their documents. That works great also.”
And while it’s almost inconceivable that digital records can be lost during shipping, Illian stressed that Bluetail is the only logbook digitization services provider that conforms to FAA Advisory Circular AC120-78A on digital record keeping.
“Bluetail started with basically one solution, but we’ve grown to add capabilities like machine learning, opti- cal character recognition (OCR), and other automation capabilities,” he continued. “Now an owner can literally take a photo of a document with their iPhone, upload it to us, and then search that document by title, work scope, signature, or whatever.”
“People have no idea of what it takes to make this hap- pen. All they know is they push a button, and they can complete detailed records searches in seconds instead
of spending hours or days flipping through paper logs,” Guerrieri added. “And all of that data is as secure as it would be locked inside of any bank’s vault.”
Thar’ Be Pirates Out There
Security is something that its customers expect Bluetail to take very seriously. To that end, you can sleep soundly knowing that Bluetail’s security protocols don’t slack off once the data is in the cloud. If anything, it gets tighter.
“We are extremely proud that a growing number of Fortune 100 corporate flight departments are choosing Bluetail to handle the digital aircraft records management of their fleet’s maintenance and operational records,” stated Bluetail VP of Application and Delivery, Greg Baynham. “The information in these records is sensitive and ex- tremely valuable.”
“From the very beginning, we have taken great pride in the fact that all of Bluetail’s digital records are always protected by the most advanced cybersecurity encryp- tion protocols,” he added. “Today, our application uses industry-leading 256 AES security for all data while in transit and at rest.”
Baynham also explained that because Bluetail is hosted by AWS (Amazon Web Service), arguably the most secure protocol in the commercial world, their protocols follow all the leading global cybersecurity guidelines, including
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