Frequently Asked Questions
How Do I Track Helicopter Time or Acrobatic Time?
Custom logbook categories are very helpful when the need to track specific types of flying or to be able to further categorize your flight hours. Many pilots fly different types of aircraft or do different types of flying and want to keep track of those hours separatly. Here are some examples of commonly used custom logbook categories.
- ACRO - Track time spent performing acrobatic flight
- BIZ - Track time for business reasons or business expenses
- HELI - Track time spent flying helicopters
- GLID - Track time spent flying gliders
- TOW - Track time spent performing aero tows
- AGG - Track time spent performing agricultural operations
- And on and on...
Any custom logbook categories you create will be displayed in the flight entry/edit screen, so take care not to create logbook categories you will not use. The logbook snapshot and the totals by category report will also allow you to view or report on your custom logbook categories.
How Do I View My Entire Logbook?
The logbook snapshot is a useful tool to get a more traditional view of your flight history. You can access the logbook snapshot by clicking the logbook snapshot link in the shortcuts section of the dashboard or by going to the reporting section. The logbook snapshot will display your entire flight history in a logbook page style view and allow you to scroll vertically while keeping the column headers and totals stationary.
You can export your logbook data to an Excel file or print your logbook data by clicking the desired button in the upper left portion of the screen. The logbook snapshot works best in the Mozilla Firefox browser.
How Do I Add Forwarded or Previous Flight Time?
Create dummy aircraft profiles for the types of aircraft required. For example, if you have time in multi engine and single engine aircraft, create a dummy multi engine aircraft profile with the appropriate attributes set and one for the single engine time. Name the aircraft profile something like "Dummy Multi" or "Dummy Single" or "Dummy Cessna 172". Add new flights using the dummy aircraft profiles. You could also add dummy aircraft for specific makes and models if you would rather break your total type up that way. Simply add a dummy aircraft profile for each type of aircraft you wish to add previous flight time for. AvJournal allows you to add an aircraft on the fly from the flight entry screen, you can do this if you prefer and update/set the aircraft attributes later.
- Go to the Flights screen and add a new flight. Use the date of the first flight in each type of aircraft for the flight date so that it is well into the past or at least before the dates of any individual flights you have added to AvJournal
- Type "Previous" into the From field and "Flight Time" into the To field in the flight entry screen. You don't have to use that exact wording, but it will help you identify the flight as a previous flight time entry.
- Enter the total time or count values for each logbook entry field, example: Takeoffs Day: 4000, Landings Day: 3878, Night: 356.5, Simulated Instrument: 87.9, Cross Country: 632.2 and so on. Add any custom logbook categories before you add your previous flight time totals if necessary.
- Don't populate anything in the Safety Pilot and CFI/DE/Check Pilot drop down lists, leave them as. If you are using the JAA format make a Captain selection and leave the Operating Capacity as the default selection
- Just enter your grand totals for the aircraft profile you've selected and you will then see them on the dashboard, and reports. It will however just show as one single flight in the flights listing screen.
- Treat the Total Duration field as a Total Time entry field, this should represent all time logged in the aircraft
- Remember, once you add the previous flight time flight records, you can always go back and adjust them if they are incorrect. You can also update the aircraft profile tied to the previous flight time record if needed.
Here is an example of previous flight time being added for a pilot's C172 time.
 Example of a previous flight time entry
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