I just got logbook pro and after entering my time, like everyone else here seems like have found some mistakes. I think my logbook pro book is more accurate (although lower time). I continue to up date both paper and E-books. should i correct my paper book and make it look like $hit or just hand an interviewer a print off of my E-book? or even hand them the print off of the E-book and keep the paper book with me not in sight unless they want it?

and Ideas?

I would hand them the print out of your e-book in a nice binder or something. Then have your paper on hand in your bag just in case. I just interviewed at CAL and drug all my old logbooks in, which was a pain. I wish I had done LBP previously. Because of posts like this I just bought LBP and have spent app. 20 hours transferring times. Painful but worth it in the end.

Right now, I am keeping two logs - paper and electronic. I made a logbook database myself, using MS Access. It took me quite a while to do it, but since all the data is in a database, I can run any queries that I want to... currency, last 60 days, night hours in this plane, sole manipulator time in that plane... plus, I have the database linked to my resume in MS Word, so the times in my resume are automatically updated :-D

Now THAT's cool:D

what does logbook pro do that someone couldn't do on their own with excel? just curious. Everyone raves about the program. I'm just wondering what it does that sets it apart from any other electronic log book program?

That’s the thing. It does not set itself apart from the other software on the market. I think most pilots aren't technologically capable or do not have the patience to design one on their own. They rather spend the money for convenience rather than put the work into designing one on there own.

When I conducted a research a few months ago, the only things that most pilots liked about these expensive programs were:

1. Printing Jeppessen-Style logbook pages (100%)
2. Filtering capabilities for filling out applications
3. Ability to Customize the Logbook page

There were other things, but weren’t consider high on the priority list. Majority of the people thought some of the other features was cool, but wasn’t something they would use frequently; if at all.

The excel logs are pretty good, but LBP has the appeal of all the nice features you'd want. You should download the trial version from their website and see what the fuss is about. There's no time limit, but you can only make 50 entries.

It has several other features that I really like. You can set up several different currency "trackers" (IFR, ASEL day and night, AMEL day and night) and it also keeps track of 121 and 135 times for you and has a nice report with all the times for day, week, month, and year...

Its also nice when you are doing an application for an airline because it can quickly give you last 30, 60, 90, (whatever) days out you want. The lookback report is pretty helpful in that respect. And you can add customized columns that will figure into all your reports.

These are just a few things about it I like.