Paper to electronic logbooks
 

I'm a pilot with 7800 hrs. Does anyone know if any of the electronic logbook company's offer the paper to electronic conversion service? Meaning can you send your paperlog books to them and have them convert them to the electronic book. I would appreciate any feedback. Thanks

I looked into it a few years ago when I converted mine. 25 cents per entry comes to mind. I did the math and did it myself. The big problem I would have would be sending your only logbook in the mail. I can't imagine the disaster if it got lost or destroyed.

You might be able to find someone local who wants to make a few bucks doing data entry.

Do like I did...start typing now.
The cost/benefit ratio was too high to pay someone to do it for me.

I converted to electronic when I had only 5000 hours. It took about two weeks, and my wrist felt like I had carpal tunnel syndrome (I log every flight as an individual entry).

I'm very happy I switched to electronic. AirlineApps and PilotCredentials want the hours broken down differently. The software makes it a simple "click and done".

FYI, I started with LogBook Pro (PC). When I went Mac, I switched to Log10Pro, and it transferred all my data effortlessly.

I just entered a 'Carried Over" line for each type and took scans of the last several pages of paper; LogTen allows you to attach images to an entry..

My question is, how important is it to have electronic if we are applying to a major? I have always done just paper and the thought of transferring all of it makes me sick..

I keep hearing having an electronic print off for interviews is almost a must anymore...can anyone chime in?

I recommend doing it yourself and take your time. Do it exactly like you have it in your paper books. Line by line. Best way I think. Count up the total pages you have, and divide that number by the days you have before you need/want to complete it. Just do that many pages per day.

Also, I had a friend who paid a college student off of Craigslist to do data entry. Think he charged him like 300 for 7000 hours.

It's pretty nastalgic when you go back through and enter the hours in. It's amazing what you'll remember when you do it. it's really tedious though, and really gets old quick. That many hours would suck to enter.

Why not just scan the logbook in and keep it as a pdf file. It's not an "electronic" logbook at that point, but is a good backup in case of disaster.

Then, just start new with an electronic logbook making line 1 all your carry over numbers.

I did all mine on overnights. About 2 hours at the hotel before bed really knocks you out too, so you don't need to spend money on beer. It took me around a month and a half for about 3000 hours. But I broke multi-leg training flight down into separate segments so they would show up on the Google map (total nerd, I know).

I have no idea what someone would have charged to do that..but i imagine it would have been wrong.

http://convertmylogbook.com/ConvertMyLogbook/ConvertMyLogbook.com.html

I used them to prepare for my interview. They send you a scanner, you scan digital pics of your logbook pages, return the scanner, they email you a file to import. Your logbooks stay with you the entire time.