How to make keeping track of your duty limits as painless as possible…

LogTen Pro allows you to create powerful duty limits groups. If you’re like many professional pilots, you’ll find this to be a big help. For example, at some companies pilots cannot fly more than 55 hours in any consecutive 7 day period, however if they rest for 3 days then the limit starts over. You can do this with LogTen Pro using the Consecutive Days date option in a Duty Limit or “maximums” Smart Group.

It would look like this:

Once you’ve created this group it will show the number of hours remaining until you reach your limit. The value will update every time you open LogTen Pro, or if you just finished a session of entering flights you can refresh it simply by clicking on it.

Give it a whirl, and if you have any questions, shoot me an email!

Cheers,

Noah

No matter what you’re working toward, with LogTen Pro it’s easy to keep track of your goals.

How do I accomplish this you ask? It’s easy, all with the magic of Smart Groups. Here’s how:

[This example tracks a goal of 50 hours of Cross Country PIC/P1 time for flights over 50 nautical miles.]

Basically you set your target, and any additional criteria, and tick the box at the bottom to “Treat criteria as Maximums for the period”. Create a new group for each of your targets, then you can see next to each the hours remaining until you reach the limit or “goal”. These values will update every time your document is first opened and whenever you click on the group.

In the above example we don’t specify anything for the date range so it will look at all our flying. If we want to set a goal for a specific time period, you can specify a date range. e.g. I need to log 20 hours in the sim next month… Or maybe I need to log 10 hours of dual received in any given 6 month period, the possibilities are endless.