@EricBe is the person who developed MyFlightbook. He should be able to answer any questions you have.
I tried Log Ten Pro. Back on paper.
I'm regretting not using one. A place I'm making an application is requiring details on all of this stuff, and honestly, it's a pain to commit four logbooks to digital. Start now while it's easy.
Try 8 of the Pro types. Not interested at this point in my life.
I did 1½ books of back entries and that was bad enough. Anytimelogbooks.com will convert paper to digital for you and get the info back to you in Excel format. It's not cheap, but considerably less personal pain involved.Same.
When you have paper logbooks, you don't start a new one by copying all of your old entries. You start with the totals from the old one and just enter the new stuff. You can do the same with electronic logbooks. Most if not all have instructions on "starting totals" or "catch up entries."
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But this one company wants breakdowns of the flight hours per type of aircraft, and they won't accept anything but a resume through their app... and I've got like 50 different types of airplanes to sort out.When you have paper logbooks, you don't start a new one by copying all of your old entries. You start with the totals from the old one and just enter the new stuff. You can do the same with electronic logbooks. Most of not all have instructions on "starting totals" or "catch up entries."
It can still be a bit of a pain depending on how much you want/need to drill down but not as bad as entering several decades of entries (I'll have to remember to give thanks Thursday that this wasn't an issue for me when I stated keeping an eLog
Yep that's the "depending on how much you want/need to drill down" PITA part. OTOH, if you have to do that manually for the company, anyway you'll have your starting totals by type so you'll never have to do it manually again. Or, if it's that important, there are companies out there that will digitize written data, such as the place @Stan Bergey mentioned.
AFAIK they all do. Some need more tweaking than others and you will usually still need to define aircraft. Most of the homemade Excel logbooks I've seen emulate the column structure of a paper logbook where you have manual entry columns for things like SEL vs MEL vs SES and in some cases, HP, Complex, and tailwheel if you are tracking those. In a good digital logbook, those are all part of the aircraft definition. For an individual flight you just enter the tail number. The database "knows" all that other stuff for when you ask it for information..
Yeah I was joking. I’ve been on my flight book since I started. So much easier
Funny about differences. I'm the exact opposite. To be fair, I was using MFB before FF existed and forever 10 years before FF had a logbook. But aside from that, although I know I could export most of it without much difficulty if needed, I would not want to feel tied to a particular EFB app by having my logbook attached to it.
Excel works for me. I still have a paper logbook for Flight Reviews, and a place to store my CFI renewal and BasicMed paperwork, TSA training, etc.
That is where an electronic logbook shines. With a few clicks I can give you totals of make and model. Or totals of a specific aircraft. Or a class of aircraft. Or XC in AMEL or nigh in RH, etc.
Stipulated it may take a couple clicks more, but in Excel it’s pretty easy to do a sort by any of those criteria and do a quick SUM of the appropriate cells.
Did you transfer your log entries into FF or do you keep an excel copy of the old flights?
I use Google Sheets at a deeply automated level, back it up on paper, oh and let the paper carry the signatures.
