TailHookIP

Has anyone used Logten Pro and had any problems with the reports? I can't get accurate information from the "airlineapps" or pilotcredentials reports. There are serious discrepencies with PIC/SIC/Dual.

soon2bfo

Logten Pro does night time automatically and imports from many schedule formats. If you have comma delimited or otherwise columns of data it can import and in seconds years of flights are logged. Apple only which is a drawback. I personally bought a mac partly because of Logten pro.

jonnyjetprop

What are the acceptable ways of presenting your electronic logbook information for an interview? Are you printing page by page or producing a summary or report?

sandrich

If you're printing 40+ pages, I recommend having Kinko's or someone print it out... trying to print front/back at home is a pain (screw up one page and you gotta start from scratch). Export it to a PDF and throw it on a thumb drive and drop it off (I used the Jeppesen 27 trip format in LogTen Pro, fills up a whole landscape page). Then, get yourself one of these:
http://www.amazon.com/Landscape-Bind...6577420&sr=1-5
As you add time, you can just print it page by page, hole punch, throw it in the binder, and there you go (you may have to reprint the last page every time you update). You can even throw your old paper logbook in the front pocket if it has one. Did this for my interviews, no questions asked. They spent maybe 10 seconds in my books. If you just need something quick for an interview, just have them spiral bind it after they print it, usually only costs like $5, but you wont be able to add pages afterwards. Hope this helps.

Word from the wise-- if you're forwarding time, make sure your multi time is in a separate entry and has an aircraft type that is a "multi-engine" aircraft assigned to that entry. Otherwise, your multi totals at the bottom of your pages that the program creates will not include any of that forwarded time. LogTen Pro for example, when generating a logbook/report, looks at time logged in each aircraft type and splits up all the different types of time (complex, turbine, multi, etc) as opposed to just adding whatever the number is in the "multi" column of your logbook. Same goes for forwarding turbine time (assign a turbine type aircraft to the entry). Found this out the hard way when I was signing my logbook pages that I just printed and bound and realized it was missing 700 hrs on the totals line...

RunawayTrim

This is very useful information I'm in the bowels of converting everything to Logbook Pro right now. Thanks

km1619

I have logbook pro and I like the Jepp 27 format. Do you combine both pages (the export file is like a standard logbook; each flight 'line' takes up two pages) onto one page or do you have each export page on its individual page? The latter would make the binder look like a standard logbook.

Let me know if the above question is confusing.

Edit: I actually have Logten Pro. I got slightly confused there... Is logbook pro the same way (each flight prints off on two sheets)?

captkdobbs

One suggestion about electronic logbooks; they are great at giving you 'the numbers', but when it comes to reviewing your flight history (interviewer) or self review (prepping for an interview) they can be somewhat sterile. For the high-time guys, there's not a whole lot we can do about that 'catch up' entry, however, if you have less than 5000 hours to enter, it might be worth the effort to go back and enter the data leg-by-leg, day-by-day, every tail number or however you choose. That way it allows you to put comments about approaches (if you can remember them) interesting events or highlights.
Some of the 'military style' interviewers will also look at your logbooks as a reflection of your attention to detail. Some will look at the comments as windows into your experience, and some, honestly, won't care.
You get the interview based on the numbers, so make sure they are accurate. Once you get the interview, the interviewer decides what they are looking for in your books; make them reflect well on your professionalism just in case.

TheCaseHD

LogBook Pro offers a "data entry" service. I personally haven't used it, but I know a few guys who have with great results.

Data Entry Service

For airline interviews, I used the printing service and binder also through LogBook Pro. I've received several compliments on it over the years. Not exactly cheap, but worth it.

Albief15

I am not affiliated with these guys, but I HAVE drunk a lot of booze and eaten some good food in Campinas, Brazil with the owner of this place as he is a fellow FedEx pilot…

ConvertMyLogbook.com

It might save some time for the busy/lazy amongst us….

rv8builder

I feel like a private pilot again asking these questions, but how might an interviewer view "actual instrument" time on logbook pro?

My example: I fly long-haul and just put in 1.0 of actual on every leg. Would that come across as a fabrication? No one is really tabulating their actual instrument time- and putting .6 or .7 or .8 or whatever per flight sends up a BS flag.

Back in the day my numbers "looked" better- but nowadays it doesn't really matter in terms of experience level. We've all heard of logbook-review horror stories, I'd hate for this to cost me a job I'm interviewing for.

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