Digital logbook recommendations

[Snowgoose]

Been using a homemade excel logbook for nearly 20 years. Easy, modifiable and free. Great way to learn excel and VBA. Among other things, I have it print pages which I put into a binder and use an HP sprocket to add pictures to it.

A pilot once said about a logbook, Make it your own, for most it's the only book some people will ever write.

As for flight time limits and duty day, same thing, pretty easy to program. If you have a working one now, even easier to look at the formulas or VBA code to mod it to the new rules. (provided it isn't protected)

[AirFrame]

So, can mcc or LogTen also track duty and flight times for you? I've been using a spreadsheet an old employer was using but it is set up for the old rules.

If it's a spreadsheet, you can probably edit the formulas in the spreadsheet to check the new rules.

[J31]

How is CrewLounge PilotLog (Formerly MCCPilotLog) work for folks? is it worth the subscription fee's?

[TSAM]

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[notwhoyouthinkIam]

With all of the time off that I am expecting in the next few months, I am looking at a project to keep me busy.

I was thinking of an online logbook.

What features would you guys like to see in an online logbook?

[AirFrame]

What features would you guys like to see in an online logbook?

1. Free. No cost, ever.
2. Open. No restriction on exporting the data to a standard format (csv, xls, ods)
3. Eternal. The website should be there for the rest of my flying career.

[broken_slinky]

What features would you guys like to see in an online logbook?

1. Free. No cost, ever.
2. Open. No restriction on exporting the data to a standard format (csv, xls, ods)
3. Eternal. The website should be there for the rest of my flying career.

LOL, that's the perfect business model to use to develop software. I want it to automatically pull the flights from FlightAware and FlightRadar24 and calculate my hours for me. Pulling the LiveATC feeds would be good too. Always nice to hear myself on the radio. It should archive the data by airport, alphabetically and by date sequentially. It should work offline as well. Perhaps updating all my devices via Bluetooth? Oh and be available to hear our complaints 24/7 if there's even the slightest glitch.

As for myself, I just use an Excel spreadsheet and have it saved to Dropbox and OneDrive.

[f70d40]

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[Adam Oke]

How is CrewLounge PilotLog (Formerly MCCPilotLog) work for folks? is it worth the subscription fee's?

It was a painful year of weekly updates, tickets, and issues. I think I can safely say that CrewLounge PilotLog is finally a good product once again. I've also been playing with CrewConnect as a RosterBuster competitor and I'm please with that app as well.

[Scuderia]

LOL, that's the perfect business model to use to develop software. I want it to automatically pull the flights from FlightAware and FlightRadar24 and calculate my hours for me. Pulling the LiveATC feeds would be good too. Always nice to hear myself on the radio. It should archive the data by airport, alphabetically and by date sequentially. It should work offline as well. Perhaps updating all my devices via Bluetooth? Oh and be available to hear our complaints 24/7 if there's even the slightest glitch.

Completely within the realm of possibility despite your pessimism... you might be surprised to see the innovation and level of community contributions and upkeep in the opensource field.

[AirFrame]

LOL that's the perfect business model to use to develop software. I want it to automatically pull the flights from FlightAware and FlightRadar24 and calculate my hours for me. Pulling the LiveATC feeds would be good too. Always nice to hear myself on the radio. It should archive the data by airport, alphabetically and by date sequentially. It should work offline as well. Perhaps updating all my devices via Bluetooth? Oh and be available to hear our complaints 24/7 if there's even the slightest glitch.

Well that was kind of my point. Given you can do all of the things I listed with a spreadsheet, there's no reason to stop using a spreadsheet.

That said, as someone else pointed out, everything you describe is possible today. The problem with any of those features is just as you get them all working, flightaware, flightradar, liveatc, etc. will make some change to their API and bork your entire package. So a software company will need to support it forever to keep it working for someone's entire career.

Much better is to spend a little time learning how to use Excel (or LibreOffice, which I use, or Google Sheets) and make your own that meets all of your needs.

[privateer]

Does anybody have a code for Excel/Numbers for a logbook? I am not very good at it.

[broken_slinky]

Does anybody have a code for Excel/Numbers for a logbook? I am not very good at it.

Shoot me a private with your email and I can send you a copy of mine.

[broken_slinky]

Well that was kind of my point. Given you can do all of the things I listed with a spreadsheet, there's no reason to stop using a spreadsheet.

That said, as someone else pointed out, everything you describe is possible today. The problem with any of those features is just as you get them all working, flightaware, flightradar, liveatc, etc. will make some change to their API and bork your entire package. So a software company will need to support it forever to keep it working for someone's entire career.

Much better is to spend a little time learning how to use Excel (or LibreOffice, which I use, or Google Sheets) and make your own that meets all of your needs.

Exactly. Then the data is in your possession and yours to manipulate as you need.

[AirFrame]

Does anybody have a code for Excel/Numbers for a logbook? I am not very good at it.

Send me your email in a Private Message and i'll send you mine. I have a copy with my content removed and some dummy content in there so you can see how it works.

[chapfo]

I looked for a bit. I couldn't find one the prints it out properly. It either misses columns or the totals are all cluttered up and messy. I've been trying to make an excel version, but I can't seem to format it well enough so it can easily tally up the hours and print a hardcopy that's presentable.

[privateer]

Thanks for the help. Spreadsheet Excel or Numbers I think is the safest option. Who doesn't like a good spreadsheet?

[bluesfan]

Hello everyone, I wanted to revive this thread to see if anyone can offer any good digital logbook recommendations? I am currently using my own excel spreadsheet but it's proving to be increasingly hard to work with as I accumulate more experience. I was considering logten but people either seem to love it or hate it, especially with the subscription cost (we already pay for everything through our ears as pilots). Other options I was looking at are: myflightbook, logbook.aero, and excelpilotlogbook.com. Any idea about these or suggestions for others?

[Scuderia]

What difficulties are you finding with Excel?
Maybe I can help, what features are you looking to add?

[Lemon song]

The logbook option that comes with Foreflight is quite good in my humble opinion. If you get right into using all the functions of Foreflight, it will actually auto populate the logbook for you when you are using it for flight following in the cockpit.