How Do I Enter a Balance Forward?

If you have time from existing logbooks that you’d like to enter as a starting point in LogTen Pro rather than manually entering all that existing flight time, it’s quite simple.

Enter a flight with totals for each aircraft type

To enter past totals just create one or more flights and enter the total times you’d like to use as starting points, you can set the date to whatever you like (probably the date of the last flight included in the total would make sense). You can decide how much detail you want, e.g. you simply enter one flight and set the appropriate totals (1139 PIC, 874 Night, etc.) or you could add a separate flight for each aircraft type to be more precise.

A Note About Times Like Jet, and Multi-Engine Land…

Because LogTen Pro automatically tracks time by type, such as Multi-Engine, Jet, etc, if you want these totals to be correct It’s important to specify the correct type for your balance forward entries. Because we’re just concerned with Engine Type, Category and Class you can simply create some generic types that cover all Jet, Multi-Engine Land, Airplane…

If You Use Reports That Display Each Type of Time as Day and Night…

If you plan to use reports that break time down into day and night, such as the Canadian or South African reports, then when you enter a balance forward you should make a separate entry for each type of time. E.g. one for your PIC/P1 totals (including night), one for SIC/P2, one for Dual, etc. Otherwise the reports will see PIC, SIC, Dual and Night all on the same flight and it will be unable to calculate the day/night totals correctly.