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Pilot Logbook

Your personal flight log — every flight, every aircraft, every approach. The pilot logbook is FAA-compliant and serves as the source of truth for your total time, currency, and BFR.

What you'll learn

  • How to view, search, and filter your logbook
  • How to log a new flight from scratch
  • How to attach a flight track (ForeFlight KML, ADS-B recording, etc.)
  • How to export the whole logbook as a PDF for your records
  • How AZSuite computes per-flight totals (PIC, SIC, XC, night, instrument…)

Prerequisites

The logbook list

Open Pilot Logbook from the dashboard tile. You'll see your entries in reverse-chronological order (newest first).

Logbook list view

The list shows the basics for each flight: date, aircraft, route, total time, landings, and a status indicator if the flight has a track attached.

Searching and filtering

The search box at the top is a full-text search across everything in the entry — N-number, route, remarks, PIC name, anything. Type to filter the list live.

Search active

Tip

Search supports partial words. Searching KZP finds flights to/from KZPH in seconds. Searching IFR finds every flight with IFR anywhere in the remarks or conditions.

Per-flight detail

Click any row to expand the full entry. You'll see every field that's set on the flight, plus the attached track (if any) and a link to flight replay.

Logging a new flight

Click + Log Flight in the top-right of the logbook view.

Log Flight dialog

Required fields

Field What it is
Date Local date of the flight
Aircraft (N-number) The aircraft you flew. See aircraft type and favorites
Route Departure → arrival, e.g. KZPH-KORL or KZPH-KSPG-KZPH for a triangle
Total time Hobbs-derived block-to-block, in tenths of an hour
Landings Day landings + night landings counted separately

Optional but useful fields

  • PIC / SIC / Solo / Dual / CFI — distribute total time across roles
  • Cross-Country / Night / Actual instrument / Simulated instrument / Hood
  • Approaches — number, type (ILS / LPV / RNAV / etc.), and result (low approach / circling / full stop)
  • Holds — count
  • Remarks — free-text notes; supports #tags for later filtering
  • Conditions — VFR / MVFR / IFR / LIFR (auto-detected from METAR if you attach a track)

Auto-totals

If you set Total Time and Cross-Country and Night and Instrument all independently, AZSuite does not add them together — these are overlapping subsets, just like in a paper logbook. Total Time is the block-to-block clock; the others are subsets of that.

Save and Log Track

Below the Save button you'll find Save and Log Track. This saves the entry, then opens a track-upload modal so you can attach a recorded flight in the same flow.

Save and Log Track button

Track sources:

  • ADS-B live recording (if you flew with the mobile app open and the recorder running)
  • ForeFlight Flights export (KML)
  • Garmin G5 / G3X CSV
  • Dynon HDX / SkyView CSV
  • Generic GPX
  • Manual track (rare; only if you're reconstructing from memory)

See Track upload from ForeFlight for the ForeFlight- specific export steps.

Editing an entry

Click an entry in the list, then click Edit in the detail view. Every field is editable, including the attached track. You can:

  • Change any field
  • Replace the attached track with a different file
  • Detach the track entirely (the track stays in the system; only the link breaks)
  • Delete the entire entry (confirmation required — this is destructive)

Deleting an entry

Deleted entries are gone — there's no undo. Use this carefully if you've been logging for a long time. If you only want to fix a typo, edit instead of delete-and-reenter.

Totals & summary card

Above the list there's a totals card showing your career totals:

Totals card

The totals are computed live from every entry, so they update the moment you save. If you ever notice the totals look off, see Troubleshooting → Totals don't match.

PDF export

Click Export PDF in the top-right. AZSuite generates an FAA-style logbook PDF — one row per flight, totaled and signed-off at the bottom of every page.

PDF preview

The PDF is suitable for:

  • Submission with a checkride application (8710-1)
  • Insurance underwriter review
  • Personal archive (we recommend an annual export to your own storage as a backup)

Tip

The PDF is timestamped and includes a footer with your name, certificate number (if entered), and the export date — useful for proving exactly what you submitted.

Tips

Tags in remarks

Use #instrument, #proficiency, #mountain, etc. in the remarks field. Search-by-tag later to pull a list of every flight that fits.

Recurring routes as favorites

The route field remembers your last 10 routes. Tap the star icon to mark one as a favorite — favorites bubble to the top of the dropdown.

Aircraft favorites

Same idea works for aircraft. Star the planes you fly often; they'll autocomplete first.

Troubleshooting

Symptom Likely cause Fix
"Save and Log Track" opens a popout window instead of a modal Browser popup-blocker behavior on older Safari Update Safari, or use Chrome / Firefox
Track upload fails with "alt and GPS speed not captured" Old ForeFlight KML missing speed/alt data See Track upload from ForeFlight — newer ForeFlight versions include both
Entry saved but no track attached Track parser failed silently Check the track file format. Re-upload from the entry detail page
Totals seem wrong after editing an entry Cache stale Reload the page; totals re-compute on every load