Logbook Pro Flight Logbook

I’ve been using Logbook Pro since shortly after beginning to fly. I went back and entered all my paper logbook entries in so I’m fully electronic. It’s great for those annual insurance requirements requests, especially when you are flying lots of different types of aircraft. Float planes, high performance, helicopters, tailwheel, complex, turbine, etc. It is a-lot easier to get all these subtotals.

I’ve been a loyal customer for over a decade and I like what Logbook Pro does but they have so much more potential! Access to my entire logbook on my iPad would be amazing. I mean who doesn’t want to have the answer at your fingertips to brag to your friends on what day you flew a Ford Quantum motor for the prince of Greenland during the best Northern Lights show of the century. Also the ability to save templates for my frequent PHFs for a number of different companies that all want different data. Yes I can use the analyzer but it gets ridiculous having to change all of the nuanced time in type. I mean who needs moonless night time in a one wheeled auto gyro during an engine failure, solo, part 135 🤦‍♂️. But if I had a template it would be one time to set it up and it would be open the report for acme airlines company and I’m done. Please add these features NC-Software!!! I know it is possible and probably wouldn’t be to hard to add, there are others that do.

After over a decade of use, this will be the last year I use logbook pro. For ages, the lack of Mac compatibility was fine, since they were not that common, and the desktop user interface was great, back when it was rolled out. However, there in lies the problem, the desktop UI hasn’t been updated in ages and it’s required for any database updates to show on your mobile app. Also, the extra money and steps to run this outdated program on a Mac is getting overbearing for anyone who isn’t a computer engineer on the side. Running a Windows emulator is constant problems, and who has the time to be tinkering with this. I figured by now, a native Mac interface would be rolled out, but it appears the windows software is completely forgotten, so forget about a Mac app. In the end, sadly, logbook pro has not kept up with the times. I tried to hang on, but my time is to precious.