All those airplane buttons…

At the top of the main window is a row of buttons known as the “Toolbar”. You can actually customize this to only contain the functions you use regularly, and even re-arrange them. Select “Customize Toolbar” under the View menu.

Delete

This may seem rather obvious. It’s function is to delete the selected flight(s), however, two things of note: hitting the “Delete” key does the same thing. Before the flights are actually deleted a warning comes up asking if you’re sure you want to delete the flight(s). As you may have found in many applications the “Option” key is used to modify a behaviour in some way. In this case, if you’re really sure you want to delete the flights, simply hold down option when you hit delete and you won’t get the warning. Poof.

New Flight

Create’s a new flight above or below the current selection depending on the sort order.

Duplicate

If you’ve experimented with this function you may be raising your hand about now to point out that it’s not technically a duplicate of the selected flight. You’re correct. In this instance it’s much more useful to only copy certain data from the flight we’re “Duplicating”.

This function will create a new flight, and copy the following items from whatever flight was selected when you hit the button (if more than one flight was selected the first one will be used):

• From and To Airports
• Aircraft and Aircraft Type
• Total Time
• Cross Country
• Remarks

Next Leg

Similar to the Duplicate function, this will create a new flight and assume the following items from the currently selected flight:

• Flight Date
• Aircraft and Aircraft Type
• Takes the arrival (to) airport of the selected flight as it’s departure (from) airport

Return Trip

Exactly the same as Duplicate, except that it reverses the From and To airports.

Manage [Resources]

This opens the Manage Resources window. For more details and to learn all the things you can do here, you want to view the Managing Resources category.

The Hub

This will take you to The Hub online forum. This is an online community for mac pilots hosted by Coradine. You can ask questions, post job opportunities, share resources, etc.

Configure

Opens the Configure sheet for customizing various options. These options are saved with your logbook document, so if you take your document to another mac all your settings including column ordering etc. will be preserved. For more details see the Customizing LogTen category.

Reports

Opens the Reports window where you can generate, view and print various reports. For more details see the Reports category.

Search

Here you can quickly type in a quick search. Looking for all flights with Bob? Just type Bob in the search box and any flights where Bob was a crew member will be displayed. Flights with a certain remark, or aircraft, etc. If it’s something you want to do regularly think about creating a smart group, it will be much faster, as the quick search field has to search many different fields to see if theres a match.