Computer Based Logbooks

[Born Sinner]

After years of having to cellotape my logbook together I've decided to go technical...

Does anyone know of any PC based software designed as an aviation logbook and where I can purchase it.

It would also useful if eventually I could use the same programme on a handheld pocket type computer.

Please be very basic in responce as despite being a commercial pilot - I'm incredibly bad with anything technical!

Cheers

Born Sinner

[max_cont]

This has been asked before, a quick search works wonders…click here (http://www.avnet.co.uk/gtaviatn/skylog/skylogp.htm) in desperation ;)

Cheers

[Born Sinner]

Max_cont,

Thanks for the reply... but not sure the sarcasm was quite called for. Perhaps you should get out a little more!

[max_cont]

Born Sinner glad to help.

The reply was posted in jest, hence the wink smiley.

Perhaps you should stay in more and learn what all these little faces mean.:)

[Loony_Pilot]

Hi,

Have a look at

www.skylog.co.uk

www.barrettsoft.com

www.e-logbooks.co.uk

I used e-logbooks until they made it a pay site, imho it doesnt provide any features which justify the price. Its better suited to the occasional private pilot who doesn fly much rather than someone who flies 20-30 times a week in summer etc

skylogpro is £60 but has lots of good features, including a student database if you're an instructor

flightlog2000pro (barrettsoft) is cheaper and adequate but doesnt have the same range of graphs/charts/tables and so on.
It does present hours and so on in a slightly nicer manner than skylog

I tried them all and though I havent bought one yet, I'll probably with Skylogpro as it seems to have all the features I require, even if it does have the damned annoying habit of logging everything as cross country unless u put the destination as "local" or "lcl". If it had a tick box to choose whether it was x-country or not it would basically be nigh on perfect for what I want.

The above are just my opinions and I'm not trying to promote any particular software company.. try them for yourself and see... they all have free demo's

Loony

[Mooney]

i recommend the Captain's Keeper log book with a Palm handheld. Very powerful logbook and prints off well!

http://www.nimblefeet.com
www.palm.com

[rosewellian]

Latest V5 skylog Pro now includes Palm OS interface, works with Palm Pilots and Sony Clie

[Onan the Clumsy]

I wrote my own in Excel and it works for me. I learned a lot about Excel at the same time too.

I tried some of the commercially available ones but they weren't exactly what I wanted.