• You can get pre-made endorsement sheets here: http://secure.nc-software.com/Endorsement-Solutions-C18.aspx which you can have signed and keep in your binder.
• You can print out the certificates you create in LogTen Pro and have them signed.
• You can simply use whatever hard copy method you use now, then take a digital photo or scan it and insert that into the certificate entry in LogTen! This keeps a digital copy in your electronic logbook which you can then view on your computer or print as desired.

This document should be a big help if you’re having trouble getting LogTen Pro to recognize your aircraft types, most likely they ARE in the database, but the FAA may use a different designation.

In LogTen Pro 5 you can manage a database of airports. When you enter a From or To value for a flight it looks for a match in the airport database (the Airports tab of the Resource Manager). If it doesn’t find one it will search the internal database of over 27,000 airports worldwide, if it finds a match it will create a new entry in your airports list in the Resource Manager and copy the data from the internal database, if the field is STILL not found it will simply create a new empty entry in your airports list and set it’s ICAO ID to whatever you entered in the “From” or “To” field.

The “From” and “To” fields are much more than just a few characters, it’s a link to a specific airport that allows LogTen Pro to do things like calculate the distance of your flights, instantly change how your “From” and “To” fields are displayed (in the Preferences you can select from ICAO, IATA, or Name) as well as a reverse relationship to every flight that uses it so that you can look at a particular airport and instantly see how many arriving and departing flights you have.

From and To airports should always be a single airport identifier. Route information should be entered in the “Route” field.

Many pilots like to record a days flying as a single entry, and it is not uncommon to see a sequence of sectors in the “From” or “To” field. For example on a flight from Denver International Airport to Seattle’s SeaTac Airport via Los Angeles International and Phoenix Sky Harbour you might see something like this in the “From” field: KDEN-KPHX-KLAX and then KSEA in the “To” field. As you may have already guessed from the first paragraph, this will result in a new airport being created in your list with the ICAO ID of “KDEN-KPHX-KLAX”: not good. So the next time you go to enter a flight to KPHX, you’ll get “KDEN-KPHX-KLAX” auto entered because it found a match!

So the way it was designed, you would enter the starting point, and the end point, and then enter route information in the route field. Note that at any time you can choose “Get Airport Data” under the Manage menu to fill in missing data from the internal database where available. This means if you’ve got an airport with just and ID, such as KDEN, running this command will look up KDEN in the internal database and fill in the IATA, the Name, Lat, Lon, City, State, Country etc if the information is available.

What if I Already Entered My Data This Way?

If you’ve got a bunch of data entered in this fashion, and you need to clean it up, the best thing to do is export your flights to tab delimited file, then open it in a spreadsheet application like MS Excel for cleanup. Here you can create a calculated field to just grab the first identifier from your list of fields (“From” in our example above) and make a new, single identifier, “From” field. Then you can import your data back into a new empty file in LogTen Pro importing the old from information into the “Route” field and your new “cleansed” from information into the “From” field.

Type: B752 (this is generally a short identifier combining the make and model, like C-172 for a Cessna 172)
Make: Boeing
Model: 757-200
Engine Type: Jet
Category: Airplane
Class: Multi-Engine Land

Now if I fly a fleet of 757′s in the Aircraft tab I just enter the Aircraft ID, and select the type, and I don’t have to specify that it’s a Multi-Engine Jet Airplane for every Aircraft I enter. For each individual aircraft, I can then track things that are unique about that particular aircraft.

More than meets the eye!

LogTen Pro’s powerful bi-directional linking means that not only is a flight “linked” to an aircraft (meaning a change in the aircraft entry updates in every flight) but that an aircraft, and even an aircraft type knows the flights that it’s linked to and can quickly display information based on this. Check out the status display at the bottom of each of the tabs of the Resource Manager, you’ll be able to see quick stats such as the number of flights and total time in any particular aircraft!

This is very important, because it determines how your times by type are calculated… So you need to have each of your “Aircraft Types” be unique. If you have more than one with the same “Type” then you can’t select the right one for a particular aircraft.

Handling Simulators

If you fly a simulator make sure you select the appropriate value for the Category, such as “Simulator” or “PCATD” (Personal Computer-based Aviation Training Device). Since aircraft types must be unique, if you also fly the real thing, I suggest adding something like “S” or “Sim” to the aircraft type so that it can be clearly identified for flights and reports. So if our example above were a simulator you could enter it as B752SIM.

Alternatively you could create an Aircraft and set it’s ID to something like B752SIM, and then just select the B752 type, however this will have the side effect of including your sim time with all other B752 time when viewing Time by Type reports.

Quick Summary

1. Open the Resource Manager
2. Select your record in the AddressBook tab (add a new one for yourself if you haven’t yet)
3. Tick the “This is Me” checkbox
4. Select the “Certificates” tab of the Resource Manager (at the top)
5. If you’ve already added your medical select it, if not create a new medical certificate and enter the particulars. The key is simply that you select yourself as the pilot.

The Details

In the LogTen Pro AddressBook, similar to Apple’s AddressBook, your personal information is simply another entry. So make sure you add yourself. Now equally important the only way LogTen Pro knows which record is yours is if you tick the “This is Me” box. Now when you endorse certificates, or set yourself as the pilot you’ll see them in your record in the AddressBook, and more importantly in this case the status display both in the main window and in the Resource Manager will now be able to display the days remaining until your certificate expires.