Originally Posted by
ninerdriver
I did Excel for a while. Excel is good at collecting data, but not always so good at reporting it. It can't automatically sort by colors, for example, so it'll be hard to report on hours by plane unless you're familiar with tables and filters.
In the end, it's way worth your money for something like MCCpilotlog. I made that move a year ago, and I don't regret it for a minute.
Newer versions of Excel sort by colors very easily. You can also use macros to automatically create pivots based on colors. You can pretty much do anything with Excel that other reporting tools do. The difference is you have to actually program it in Excel using SQL language.