Electronic logbooks?

TWP said:
I wish I would have started electronic from day 1. Saves lots of time transferring the data. Makes printing a nice clean logbook for interviews a breeze.
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I was lucky. In addition to paper, I started recording my flight time in an eLog I put together in the early 1990s. (Remember DOS?) Transferring it to MyFlightBook was fairly simple.
 
MidlifeFlyer said:
I was lucky. In addition to paper, I started recording my flight time in an eLog I put together in the early 1990s. (Remember DOS?) Transferring it to MyFlightBook was fairly simple.
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DOS was awesome. I think I had to type /run:doom to get the game going every day way back when.
 
Never used electronic logbook before..

Anyone want to enter all this data in an electronic logbook for me? Includes my very first one on top of the stack from 1978. Somewhere north of 20K hours worth last I checked buy I still have some little red trip books to add .....ugh!

Guess I'll have plenty of time on my hands to work on it now. :oops:

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full disclosure I do get money from Logbook Pro.

In my personal opinion the two main players in area are Logbook Pro and LogTen Pro. Users tens pick the programs based on their OS preference. It is possible to run Logbook Pro on a Mac by installing windows in a VM on the mac.

Both work well and get the job done. Users should try both and then pick which they feel is best for them through free trials both offer.
 
A300Capt said:
Never used electronic logbook before..

Anyone want to enter all this data in an electronic logbook for me? Includes my very first one on top of the stack from 1978. Somewhere north of 20K hours worth last I checked buy I still have some little red trip books to add .....ugh!

Guess I'll have plenty of time on my hands to work on it now. :oops:

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That wouldn't be cheap to pay someone to enter...at least $3,000
 
For 31 years I flew with guys at Brown that every leg filled out on of those little notebook logs to keep track of their times. I guess it was in case scheduling screwed something up in the computer or whatever. Even when I was a Capt, I was way to lazy to care about keeping a logbook. About the only thing that even happened would be the occasional call from skeds asking who did the landing. I would reply "whoever needs it the most" and I'd get silence back. I did get a printout of my entire careers worth of flying, though. It's there in my hard drive if I ever need it.
 
fholbert said:
I still resort to DOS (command prompt) when I want to clean up files/folders quickly in Windows 10.

“del *.mov” is a lot quicker than working in file explorer.
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bash is better, but yeah; amazing what you can do with a command prompt.

Though some of Microsoft's command-line tools have utterly ridiculous parameters. "Slash what now?"
 
Another +1 for Foreflight. Used MyFlightbook for a long time but the crappy old planes I fly now don’t have ADS-B In and I use a Stratus instead. When I discovered it logged everything automatically and I just had to send the track log to my logbook…game changing. Stupid easy and I can chuckle at my poor visual approaches.
 
DE727UPS said:
He's career oriented but if he went electronic from the start how do you handle the solo endorsements, ect? I guess you could just create and endorsements document and print it out, fill it out.
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Stick them in a paper logbook. It also isn't totally uncommon to keep different logbooks for different flying (on for gliders, one for power, etc).
 
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