Electronic Logbooks

Make your own using excel spreadsheet. That way you can customize it
for your particular needs. In addition to flight times, I keep also
keep track of financial information for each flight such as income and
expenses and dues so that tax reporting becomes easier. I have
multiple worksheets on the same file, each one customized for a
different purpose. There is a separate worksheet for each student, so I
can send them invoices or keep track of their flights separate from my
own. Lots of goodies like this, but it really is quite simple to write
this on your ow. You can start with a basic skeletal spreadsheet, and
add features incrementally over a period of time.



daniel.bascomb wrote:
My pilot's logbook is in an apalling state - it is covered in coffee
stains and tipp-ex.
I heard that if you search hard enough on google you can find some
really good (and free) electronic logbooks. It would really help me to
be able to keep an electronic copy of all records as well as my regular
logbook.
Does anyone know where I can get a good e-logbook from?

Daniel

Just a thought (I don't use an electronic logbook) but Google has a
web-based spreadsheet. This might come in handy as you could access it
from any computer with an internet connection (most, nowadays).

I haven't used Google's spreadsheet so I can't really make a
recommendation but it might be worth looking into. I use Google's
calendar and it's kind of handy.

--Walt

Andrew Sarangan wrote:
Make your own using excel spreadsheet. That way you can customize it
for your particular needs. In addition to flight times, I keep also
keep track of financial information for each flight such as income and
expenses and dues so that tax reporting becomes easier. I have
multiple worksheets on the same file, each one customized for a
different purpose. There is a separate worksheet for each student, so I
can send them invoices or keep track of their flights separate from my
own. Lots of goodies like this, but it really is quite simple to write
this on your ow. You can start with a basic skeletal spreadsheet, and
add features incrementally over a period of time.



daniel.bascomb wrote:
My pilot's logbook is in an apalling state - it is covered in coffee
stains and tipp-ex.
I heard that if you search hard enough on google you can find some
really good (and free) electronic logbooks. It would really help me to
be able to keep an electronic copy of all records as well as my regular
logbook.
Does anyone know where I can get a good e-logbook from?

Daniel

"Walt" wrote in message
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Just a thought (I don't use an electronic logbook) but Google has a
web-based spreadsheet. This might come in handy as you could access it
from any computer with an internet connection (most, nowadays).

I haven't used Google's spreadsheet so I can't really make a
recommendation but it might be worth looking into. [...]

I haven't used it either, but have heard that, while fairly simple, what it
does do it does well.

For those simply looking for an alternative to Excel, but not in need of an
online solution, there's Open Office which includes a spreadsheet. Again, I
don't have any personal experience with it, but the people who do use it
swear it's great (not that I have any particular reason to believe them, but
I also have no particular reason to disbelieve them either).

Of course, if all you really want is an alternative to writing things down,
a simple text file edited with Notepad or similar program would be fine too.
But then you'd have to do your own math.

Pete