Originally Posted by
Simple_Jack
Ask 100 pilots you’ll get 110 answers on which logbook is the best. Main options are to either: A) Pay a monthly fee for a premium program like Log Ten Pro, Logbook Pro, ForeFlight, etc; B) One time fee for a program like mccPilotLog; C) Excel (or paper)... free and can be customized to infinity and beyond depending on your level of nerdilization.
I started paper, then excel then finally paid the $70ish one time fee for mccPilotLog and it works great for me. Pretty much all the electronic ones have a way to print out nice logbook pages for an interview. There’s plenty of comparisons out there on the interwebbing so I’d recommend doing a little research. Good luck!
I've given a few logbook apps (off the App Store) a half-hearted attempt, but I finally settled on Logbook Pro for organizing my hours for the purposes of applying to the airlines.
Up Side: The ability to run a "report" based on multiple criteria (date range, airframe, etc) to get key data as required by different airline applications makes life a lot easier. You can also import and export
data via Excel documents. Great support via email with a very quick turnaround (I usually get a reply in 1-3 hrs). They also have thorough how-to videos on their website. Oh yeah, there's also a cloud based backup of your data and you can enter new sortie data via their phone app which then syncs to your actual computer-based file.
Down Side: It's a very powerful program, but it takes a little while to learn all of the in's and out's (I'm sure I'm still only utilizing 20% of its capabilites). No telephone-based support. It's also not cheap. I don't remember what I paid for the annual subscription, and I'd probably rather keep it that way. Supposedly it's a PC only program, no Macs.