I just spent 4 hours a day on my week long vacation typing 1400 hours of civilian time into an e-log book. It was the biggest pain in the a$$ and I'm going blind from staring so long excel spreadsheeets, not to mention the wife and kids were wondering why daddy was inside all day instead of playing at the beach. However, it is way cool to be able to sort my time any way I'd like. For example, I could easily see how many night instructor hours in a Cessna 172 I have. Or, I could see how much time I have flying a particular aircraft tail number. There is no way to do that with a written log...that is, if you have >500 hours. <500 hours and you could probably get by with punching a calculator, but that would equal the a$$ pain of punching it into an e-log book.

That being said, I also agree with Buzz's "laziness" technique. You'd be just fine with civilian log books and an AFORMS printout of military time. I would prefer this method except I had no way to sort my time the way it's required on some of the applications.

Buzz, I talked to Boom Boom the other day...evidently, you guys were good buds back in the day.

Jeff122...finally got to see one of your posts on here. Will I be able to PM at 25 posts?