Free digital logbook and duty times program - UPDATED
 

Hi,

People are always asking me for a copy of my logbook and flight times calculator for excel so i've decided to rewrite it and make it available for anyone who is interested free of charge. Compared to every other one i've seen its quite complex and detailed so I hope it provides others with as much benefit it has me.

Basic features:

- A standard logbook
- A duty times calculator
- Maintains your currency and recency for night, IFR and all approaches.
- Keeps detailed statistical records, eg flying in last 7 days, month, year etc.
- Dynamic charts with user selection negating the need to ever manually edit a formula again.
- Logbook summary page that breaks down all your hours by a/c type & configuration. Day/night, command/dual, IF time etc. Keeps track of time to IFR and medical renewals. Very useful for filling out job applications.
- Conducts predictive analysis on your logbook to give you projected totals for things like 500 multi, 100 night, etc.
- Charts time in each callsign, and breaks down how much you've flown with other people.

Once you've input the backlog of your data, day to day inputs are quite limited. The sheet gets all its calculation data from you inputting your duty start and end times, flight time and then your normal log book entry. It really doesn't take long at all.


http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/300/logbookaz6.jpg

Click here to download it.

Note: There is already some data in the sheet to serve as an illustrative example, just delete it and replace it with your own data.

Note: For those who know how to use Excel already, the worksheets are protected, to remove that protection for editing, the password is 'pprune'

UPDATE 18/8/2008.

This is an entirely new version of the software, v3.0. It incorporates many new features and has several major bugfixes. A general list;

- Approach recency fixed, 90 days VOR,NDB etc, 35 ILS.
- IFR recency fixed, specific calculation of I.F time on ground and inflight
- Duty times now adhere to a fixed 2 week period. User input allows you to designate what day is the nominated beginning of this period.
- Multi pilot copilot added
- User changeable times for the projected totals. Find out what date you're going to achieve various goals, useful for ATPL etc.
- More conditional formatting to help you identify when you're close to duty and flight time limits re CAO 48.1.
- General tidying up and graphical fixes.
- User tooltips pop up to help you with filling out various fields.

It should be very easy to copy your existing data into this sheet, so happy logging :) Its much easier to use now.

Bloody nice work and bloody nice of you to share!
Many thanks.:ok:

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That is absolutely awesome mate!!!:ok::ok::ok:
Thank you so much for your efforts and making it available to everyone.

Sorry I'm not familiar with Excel. How do you remove the protection with the password?? I would like to add some new column titles in the logbook page when I get it all setup.
Do I need to "program" it so it will then add those totals to the summary pages etc???
Thanks for your help.

10/10 mate
Thanks heaps for sharing!
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It won't download, its says that it has reached it's download limit!!

Just worked for me then, that said i'll upload it to a couple of other places to provide more options.

edit: Extra download source added to original post.

Thanks so much for this have been after one.:ok:

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Hey uber, thanks for that! Here's one I've been using, the logbook page is quite similar, your graphs and stuff seem a lot cooler!

4shared.com - online file sharing and storage - download E170 Logbook 2002 Duties V3 7.xls

When I tried to copy my numbers into the description and PIC columns of your sheet though, I get duplication in columns E/F and H/I, for some reason there are two columns for one piece of info. Any particular reason, any idea how I can avoid that?

Thanks Soldat, great work!!:ok:

PLankbender. I had a look at the sheet you are using, i'm sorry but I cant make head or tails of that.

If you paste in details and you get splitting columns like you say, you need to manually highlight the columns and hit the merge column button (after unprotecting the worksheet.. tools --> Protection --> Unprotect worksheet, enter password pprune).

I've experienced this when i've tried to paste in data in multi column groups. I've found if I paste in the names from JUST the 1 column, ie PIC, then I dont get that problem.

Good luck.

We'll stickie this thread for a few days as the Log Book program may be very useful to pilots.

PPRuNe is not associated with the Log Book in any way and accepts no responsibility for the program accuracy or whether it is acceptable to CASA.

das Uber Soldat,

This is unreal mate you have done a great job.
thanks for sharing it:ok:

It worked this time. Its excellent, good work.

Chaars Das Uber, rather nice of you old man. Tootle pip.

The other sheet
 

Just enter the date in the first column (second column is done automatically) and enter the type and the time and any other info you want, then hit the "rebuild types" button on the summary page, that's it. The "update" button on my Vista64/Office2007 doesn't work, but the rebuild one does the trick.

For more customized summarization, use the "Specialist/Instructor" columns. I add up Cross Country PIC/Instrument and Low Level times, for example, by simply duplicating the time entered on that line in one of the three columns, they are then automatically added up on the summary page.

P.S.: It's "der Soldat" not "das Soldat", and "Ueber" or U-Umlaut (the U with the two dots", not "Uber". PB aka smartar:8e
;)

Google tells me it is: das Uber Soldat

Besides, I guess he/she knows his own PPRuNe name? :confused:

Interestingly, when I Googled "das Uber Soldat" this thread came up!! :ok:

Well Done. Thanks for sharing :D

PA;)

Nice work!
works fine for me in openoffice..

Try googling "google" and see what comes up :E

Excellent work and thanks for sharing

Very nice indeed, thanks for sharing with others a fine spirit.

Thanks Uber

Can you tell me what format to use for time. It accepts whole hours, but when I try to add minutes is won't accept them. Can you also give me you protection pass word as some of the colums are to narrow and I cannot read them clearly.

Cheers :ok:

As stated in the first post, the worksheet password is 'pprune' :)

You'll have to change the format for time yourself, not sure what to. I've always used decimal based entries in my logbook. I'm sure you could convert it to minutes etc by select the cells and pressing Control - 1 to format them.

good luck :)

Will it work on a PDA?

might, thought the formatting would be a little whack.

As I was discussing with someone in a PM, as you have to manually enter your total flight time per day on teh duty sheet, I have found a way to automatically calculate this by changing the G4 cell to this formula and changing the logbook B column to date format.

=SUM((OFFSET((INDIRECT(ADDRESS(MATCH(B561,Logbook!B:B,0),12, 1,TRUE,"Logbook"))),0,0,(COUNTIF(Logbook!B:B,B4)),10)))

However, it adds considerably to calculation time so unless you're running a rather top end computer, i'd leave it to manual entry.

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It is, but if you never go over 90 hours in a rolling fortnight, you wont do it in a standalone one either.

Las
 

That assumes you do roughly the same duty every day - if you are close to 90 and at, say, 12 days, another big one will push you over.

I took the (gender-neutral) Super-Soldier's spreadsheet (nice work, DUS) and re-worked the formula to give myself a "reset" of the cumulative duty times every 15th day.

If you employer needs the flexibility of the "true" interpretation of CAO 48 and you are doing something else, questions will be asked.

Also, employees should be mindful that their Ops Manual will describe a FDT system and many operations have their own systems, exemptions, etc. Be careful that you're not putting your employer/CP in a difficult position when CASA next do an audit! :uhoh:

Nice Work DUS, certainly better than my efforts at producing such software over the years.

One suggestion though for the next version, include say 7 columns for the flight description so for a flight from ML-SY-BN-DN you enter in cell F YMML cell G YSSY cell H YBBN cell I YPDN etc.

Then you can tally up 1. your total landings and 2. the number of times you have landed at a particular aerodrome.

Not a groundbreaking piece of information, but seeing you have the data you may as well have access to it.

Thanks again

CS

all good suggestions everyone, thanks, ill work to build them in to the next version :)

Dunno about free but doesn't Command software offer something? At least they used to..

I am far from current on Excel , how do I add MultiEngine CoPilot. I am up to putting the backlog in and have come to this. I have the password , however the traits of excel pass me by.:ugh:

thanks mig3.

Myshoutcaptain. Its going to be a fairly involved process im afraid. you'll have to add the columns in the logbook page, then adjust the logbook summary page to reflect the new data etc. Bit of reading might be in order.

New version released poeples, lots of fixes and feature additions. Please refer the first post of this thread to see the new additions and find a download link.

Thanks to all who provided suggestions and pointed out bugs in the first version :)

Thanks for the update with CoPilot ... I dont Excel with Excel.:}

That's magic DUS, thanks very much and well done you!!

IRD

Appreciated
 

Hi, thanks for thinking of us but tried down load and appears the file is corrupted as several graphs fail to respond to log book input and one has overlaid word on bottom of graph?:mad:
Any chance of getting working copy:D
much appreciated:ok:

Hello all,
Long time reader, first time poster.
I'm sure i am missing something here as when i click on the download link it takes me to a rapidshare site that lists the file but seems to want a subscription.
Do i need to subscribe to be able to download this flight and duty calculator through rapidshare?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers

Heliplease in the bottom right of the rapid share page you should see 'FREE-DOWNLOAD'
Click that, close the subscribe window that pops up, wait a few more seconds and then it changes to the download link.


It is an awesome piece of work.
Thats for all the effort involved in creating this :)

I've re uploaded the latest version.

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One just out by Boeing and Jepps for Fatigue, Flt & Duty times.

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Everyone is full of praise for your work and generosity dAS and I thank you in advance, but when I click on the link to MegaUpload I do not understand what I am looking at or where to download it. Anyone care to educate me please?:confused:

Edit: As you were. I worked it out after all. For others a bit challenged like me, just click on 'Regular Download'.

Many thanks dAS.