Posted: 10/5/2011 11:10:06 PM EDT
| I need to start keeping track of my flight and sim hours (instructor and solo) for the next 3-4 years. I've googled log books, but haven't really found anything that stuck out. Any suggestions? |
| I've been using DSSLog for the last 20 years. Check it out here. It's the cheapest by far that I've seen ($19.95) and it's as simple as can be. |
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Jeppeson Professional Pilot. JS506050. But there might be good electronic ones available nowadays. But I'm old school. +1. But if your rough with things don't get this one. It will take years to fill and it might look like a dogs chew toy if your careless. |
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I recommend the small pocket size type. I don't think my first log book is printed any longer, and that's too bad, it was just about perfect. The big 'ol Professional Pilot style is inconvenient and really not as well laid out as my first one.
Don't forget to make copies of the important pages with check rides and so on in case you lose your log book. |
| Thanks gents. I might have to look into the DSSLog. Sounds convenient enough and I could keep it on a tablet. I don't need it to be small and portable though, just be able to keep track of instructor, night, instrument and solo time. The way it works for me is I have to turn in my hours monthly to an office a few hundred miles away and my official records get updated then. Maybe the electronic one would be easy to tally totals from a start to a finish date. I started using an excel type one a long time ago and my hard drive crashed and I lost all the info. Lesson learned...back up your shiznit. I'm in P-cola, so a little far away form KSPG. |
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I have one of the Jeppeson Professional Pilot logbooks. It's a decent logbook, but I filled it up in 4 years. I then switched to one made by Sporty's, and it lasted about 8 years. I'm getting close to filling my second logbook from Sporty's. Dollar for dollar, I think the Sporty's logbook is a much better value.
I also use the pocket size logbooks, and like them a lot. Very convenient to carry on trips. At the end of a trip, I transfer the flight time to the large logbook. Yeah, I know it's NUTS, but after nearly 30 years of flying, I just can't seem to stop logging my flight time.  
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I use the Jeppeson Professional one.
While we are on the subject, I tell my students to write "CASH REWARD FOR RETURN"on the inside with a phone number. I also make a copy after I fill every page and keep it in a different building than my logbook. I actually have a copy at the office and one at my folks house in case a tornado wipes out my house and office. |
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One suggestion I would make is that you create your own spreadsheet for your flight time also. I started one the day I began flight lessons and use it today. I've got pivot tables set up that break down time per airframe which is a big help in interviews and with insurance companies. I've also got pictures of most of my endorsements.
It came in handy two years ago when my home was robbed and they took my little fire safe. The only thing of any value in the thing was my logbooks so I no longer have the originals. The spreadsheet really has saved my bacon on each subsequent interview. |
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I don't know that I've yet seen a pocket size one like AeroE mentions. The Little Red One |
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Thanks gents. I might have to look into the DSSLog. Sounds convenient enough and I could keep it on a tablet. I don't need it to be small and portable though, just be able to keep track of instructor, night, instrument and solo time. The way it works for me is I have to turn in my hours monthly to an office a few hundred miles away and my official records get updated then. Maybe the electronic one would be easy to tally totals from a start to a finish date. I started using an excel type one a long time ago and my hard drive crashed and I lost all the info. Lesson learned...back up your shiznit. I'm in P-cola, so a little far away form KSPG. You can choose from a canned set of reports or build your own with DSSLog (for example, I have reports set-up for Last 90 Days, Year to Date, Total Time, Total Time- Model, Total Time- Rating Class). It's a MS Access-based program, so it imports and exports like all MS products. |