How to track BFR currency…

Need to know when your Biennial Flight Review (BFR) is due? In LogTen Pro 3.0 it’s easy. In fact, no matter when your flight reviews are due, you can track them in LogTen Pro, and easily keep track of how many days you’ve got until it’s “that time” again.

Creating the Smart Group

Quick

1. Creat a new Smart Group
2. Name it “BFR”
3. Set the date to 720 “Days”
4. Set the criteria to Notes -> Flight Review -> is -> [tick the box]
5. Tick “Treat criteria as [Minimums] for the period”
6. Click OK

The Details

We need a smart group much like the default currency groups. Click the “gear” icon at the lower left of the main window to create a new Smart Group. Now in this case we’ll set it up for a biennial flight review, but you can change the time frame as desired.

Now that you have the group, give it a useful name, like “BFR”, and set the date to “720″, then select “Days” in the menu.

Note

We specify it in days because we want it to be specific to the day. Remember that the date increment also effects granularity, meaning that if I selected 2 years, and today was 11-Dec-2006 then the group would match flights back to 1-Jan-2003 because it’s looking for WHOLE years. The same applies to months, which is important if you need to track something, say total time within the last 12 months rolling from the first of the month to today.

Set the criteria to use the “Notes” category, then the “Flight Review” field (a.k.a. “key”), since this is a checkbox field the only option for the “operator” is “is”. Now simply tick the box to indicate we’re looking for flights which have the Flight Review check box ticked.

Make sure you tick the “Treat criteria as Minimums for the period” this will make the result displayed next to the group be the number of days left for the group, otherwise it will just show the total time for the matching flights.

That’s it, click OK to close the Smart Group editor sheet.

Entering a Flight Review

Now you’ve got a group to track them, all you need to do is select the flight when the review took place, and tick the “Fligth Review” box on the Notes tab.

Now whenever you have a flight review, just tick the box, and your currency will stay, well, current.