Major PiloteBook P/A Development

Pilot Currency          

One of the primary purposes of maintaining your pilot logbook is to "show currency"... for a number of reasons: endorsements, ramp checks, checkrides (or on an 8710 prior to a checkride), renting an aircraft, buying hull insurance, applying for a job, mission qualification, etc.

Partial view of Frank's Pilot Currency. Frank is joining a flying club, and they want to know his night C172 experience. So he selects C172 under A/C Make & Model, clicks Airplane SEL and Night Time. All totals shown are compiled from ASEL C172 flights flown at least partially at night. He has a total of 18.8 hours of Night Time in C172. Further, some of those flights were split between day and night (37.1 hours total in ASEL, and 20 Day landings). Total No. of Flights column is at far right of view, and not shown here.

All corresponding flight records are highlighted on the flight log, and can be grouped together for easy review.

Frank can search on any combination of columns. If he wants, say his total Instrument Approaches in AMEL on solo night cross-country flights, he can punch it up quickly. He can also limit the analysis to a specific aircraft Tail Number.

Frank set up his five time frames (Last 30 Days, etc.) according to his preferences, and he can change them at any time, in case there are any other "special" requests.




Further examples...
  • Give me the total number of instrument approaches performed, in ASEL during solo night cross country flights, for the last 6 months, in high performance aircraft.
  • Give me the dual instruction I have received in N70TB.
  • Give me flight totals for airplane category (SEL and MEL), all aircraft, last 90 days.
  • Give me the no. of "C1" missions where I acted as flight instructor, for the past year, in ASEL (optional if logging mission flying).
  • Give me the associated expenses for any of the above examples (optional if logging flight expenses).
  • Give me the totals for page 3 of my second paper logbook...so I can check them against that logbook (optional if referencing paper logbook to check page totals).