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Hello,

I am looking for some advice for starting my electronic logbook. I have nothing electronic right now, and was wondering what fellow pilots have done for their training flights. Have you lumped your training flights into years, or types of aircraft, training for private, ME, etc. Or have you listed each flight individually. For those that have lumped them, if you have, did interviewer's have any issues with those? I am with a regional now, and will be listing all my 121 time per day I believe, but I am not sure how important each individual training flight is to display in the logbook.

Thanks in advance for any help/advice!

airline NooB

I use LogBook Pro. and I like it.
I havent used any of the other logbook programs, so I cannot offer any comparison.
Unfortunately, there is SO MUCH you can do with LogBook Pro, that I've only figured out about a quarter of its functionality in the 4 years I've used it.
I just duplicate each individual logbook entry from my hard copy into the software. If you're rich (and brave) you can send your logbook to them, and they will do all the data entry.

Never rely on one OR the other....maintain them BOTH. Run back-ups in case your files get corrupted. Consider their "Cloud back-up" which stored a copy on a remote secure server.

I keep my daily logbook entries on my iPhone. Once a week (or so) I pull my hard-copy logbook out of the safe and update it and put it right back. When I sync my phone, it updates logbook pro.
When you are bored off your arse, soaking up some dreadful hotel cable, tinker with the various functions of the program.
Having it ALL available at the click of a mouse, makes life soooooo much easier.
An airplane with missing or incomplete log books....is scrap metal.
A pilot with missing or incomplete logbooks....is a pedestrian.
Enjoy

DLpilot

I ended up just bringing forward the totals in the first entry of everything before my airline career. You can make as many backups as you want with an electronic version (CD, flash, email yourself the file). I don't keep up the old paper logbook anymore. Seems pointless. You can always print out pages of the electronic and keep them somewhere else. Electronic is the way to go.

bschref

I started using SAFELOG about 4 years ago and (still) love it. As far as the initial transfer from paper goes - I initially entered the early stuff as a lump sum, and the recent entries went in as individual legs. Over a period of a year or so, I just kept chipping away at it, working backwards in time and breaking down the older stuff into individual legs as well. Now I've got every leg entered, including scanned remark/endorsement attachments when appropriate. The program generates a pretty impressive hard copy when you need/want one.