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.

Step One: Preparation

1. In the Mac OS X Finder, navigate to your home folder, and then into Library/Application Support/LogTen Pro/
2. From the “Sample Report Templates” folder copy the “ASA Pilot Master Log” folder into the “My Report Templates” folder
3. From the new “ASA Pilot Master Log” folder you just copied in the “My Report Templates” folder, open “pageOne_header.html” with your favorite text editor. Mac OS X comes with “TextEdit” which will work just fine.
   
   NOTE IF YOU’RE USING TEXT EDIT:TextEdit will try and display the HTML as it would appear in a browser which is no good if you need to edit the code! So before opening files in TextEdit, open TextEdit and go to the preferences, Switch to the “Open and Save” tab and check the first box to “Ignore rich text commands in HTML files”.

Step Two: Changing the Column Header and Footer

1. In pageOne_header.html replace:
   

   <th id="rotorcraft">Rotorcraft</th>

   With this:
   

   <th id="jet">Jet</th>

   Note: The “id” value is for use in the CSS. You don’t have to change it but it just makes things more clear. So for example if you wanted to change the width of the column, you would set this in the style.css file. Right now it does not have an entry in the style.css, but if you wanted to set it you would simply make a new line like this:
   

   #jet{width:0.5in;}

   This would set the width of the column with an “id” of “jet” to half an inch.

2. Now we need to change the Totals so they will display jet time and not rotorcraft time! So we need to replace:
   

   <td><?ltp keypath=@sum.flight_category2; scope=page; ?></td>

   with:
   

   <td><?ltp keypath=@sum.flight_engineType1; scope=page; ?></td>

   Note: category, class, and engine type time values are available for all values listed in the aircraft type tab of the resource manager in the order they appear there. So for example if you clicked on the Engine Type menu you will see Jet, Turbine, Turbo-Prop, Piston, etc. Piston would be referenced as flight_engineType4.
   
   That takes care of the page total, but we still need to replace the balance forward and to date totals so, replace:
   

   <td><?ltp keypath=@sum.flight_category2; scope=forward; ?></td>

   with:
   

   <td><?ltp keypath=@sum.flight_engineType1; scope=forward; ?></td>

   and replace:
   

   <td><?ltp keypath=@sum.flight_category2; ?></td>

   with:
   

   <td><?ltp keypath=@sum. flight_engineType1; ?></td>

Step Three: Changing the Row

1. This is the easiest part! We’re almost done. You can close the pageOne_header.html file and open pageOne_row.html.
   This is probably starting to look at least a little bit familiar.
   
   In pageOne_header.html replace:
   

   <td><?ltp keypath=flight_category2; ?></td> <!-- Rotorcraft -->

   with:
   

   <td><?ltp keypath=flight_engineType1; ?></td> <!-- Jet -->

Step Four: Updating the Style

Now that you’ve customized the report, you’ll probably want to change the name so you can find it more easily in LogTen! Open the “style.css” file. At the top you find a section that looks like this:

/*
Report Name: ASA Pilot Master Log™
Description: A LogTen Pro report template style based on the ASA Pilot Master Log™, print out, punch and place in a quality binder for the ultimate presentation.
Version: 1.0
Author: Noah Lieberman
Author URI: http://coradine.com
Credits:

Report Type: twoPage
Rows Per Page: 20
Data Type: Flight
*/

Change the name, description, author, and other attributes as appropriate and save. Now when you go into LogTen Pro and click Reports you’ll see your new report in the list.

Want to change the font?
In the style.css file you can also change things like the font, font sizes, column widths, colours, etc. The handwriting font that we use is called “j.d.”, so if you wanted to use Helvetica for example instead, you could simply search for any occurrence of “j.d.” in the style.css file of your report and replace it with Helvetica, or whatever other font you want!

No worries, tracking day time, or any other time not available in LogTen Pro 5.0 by default is quite easy. Simply click the “Configure” button in the toolbar, then on the “Time” tab, change the name of one of the custom fields such as “Custom 1″ to the time you are tracking and tick the box next to it to add it as a new column in the main view. Note: Day times are automatically tracked by default when you enter your total time and night time.

You can now enter values for it, see running totals, and of course use it in smart groups. In case you didn’t know you can also tell LogTen Pro to automatically set this value when you enter a total time for a flight. Select the “Time” tab in the Flight Detail view and at the top right press the “Auto” button. Checkboxes will appear next to all your time values. Tick the ones you would like to be automatically updated when the total time changes (you can always override the value if you want it to be different from the total time).