The Log tab is Pilot EFB's logbook: a flying record that lives on your device and shows its working. You log flights and simulator sessions; the app rolls them into totals, recency, charts and a map, and every derived number can be traced back to the entries behind it. The line at the foot of each screen - "Personal record only." - is the module's standing framing: this is your personal record, not your operator's system and not a legal document.

The Logbook hub

Everything lives behind one segmented control at the top of the Log tab:

Segment	What it shows
Totals	Your hours - overall, by window, by type, by category - plus milestones
Entries	Every entry, grouped by month, with search and filters
Currency	Recency rules with their live status, and the record health check
Map	Your flying as a route map, with distance and records

The header carries the rest: your all-time total under the title, the career summary (trophy), logbook settings (gear), the entry menu (...) and the + button that starts a new entry.

The Logbook hub on iPhone, Totals segment: a 454 hours 30 minutes total time hero above stat tiles for PIC, PICUS, SIC, day, night and IFR hours and take-off and landing counts, with window pills for 7 days, 28 days, 6 months, 12 months and all time, and a Personal record only line at the foot — The Totals segment: the hero total, the stat grid, and the window pills - tiles appear only once they have something to count.

Log a flight

On the Log tab, tap the + button (or open the ... menu and choose New entry (blank form) for an empty one).
Check the Sector line: with smart defaults the date, aircraft type, registration and route arrive pre-filled from your recent flying, with your recent types one tap away.
Enter the Times: off-blocks and on-blocks (a "Now (Z)" button stamps the current minute), and optionally the wheels-off and wheels-on air times - block and air time are both derived as you type, and the live readout at the top of the form keeps a running block and landing count.
Count the landings and approaches: take-offs and landings with day and night kept separate, full-stop landings on their own line, and instrument approaches with holds. A suggestion chip offers the day/night split for your route and time.
Add the conditions and crew: night, IFR, cross-country and instrument time, your role (PIC, SIC, PICUS and the rest), and who you flew with.
Tap Save entry - or Save & new sector, which saves this leg and starts the next one pre-filled, made for a four-sector day.

The New log entry form: a live block and landings readout under the header, a Templates card with Save as template, a Flight or Simulator toggle, and the Sector section with today's date and the aircraft type A320 pre-filled, with recent types A320, C172 and DA42 as suggestion chips — A new entry with smart defaults: the form starts from your recent flying, and the readout at the top updates live.

Further down the same form: an EU Air OPS operation category picker with Part-CAT to Part-SPO chips, and the Times section with off-blocks and on-blocks fields, Now Z buttons, and optional take-off and landing air times with a note that air time is calculated alongside block time — Times take block and air instants side by side; the operation-type picker follows your regime.

Three shortcuts worth knowing: templates remember an aircraft, route and role you fly often; a right-swipe on any entry in the list starts a new one pre-filled from it ("Log again"); and if you leave the form half-finished the app offers to resume your draft next time. The form itself is configurable - a one-time layout picker (airline, general aviation, or everything) chooses which field groups show, and Settings > Logbook > Configure fields changes it any time.

Simulator sessions

The toggle at the top of the form switches Flight to Simulator: the route becomes a training location, and the form asks for the device type (FFS, FTD, FNPT or ATD), the device identity and what the session covered. Simulator time totals separately - the SIM tile counts it, and the flight totals exclude it.

Read your totals

Window pills - 7 days, 28 days, 6 months, 12 months or all time; every tile recomputes for the window. Pro The rolling windows are Pro; all-time is free.
Stat tiles appear when they have something to count - night, IFR, approaches, holds, autolands, instrument time, multi-engine and turbine time, and more.
Hours by type Pro - one bar per aircraft type.
By operation, category and class - the analyze card breaks time down by operation type and airframe class, and shows a "Not recorded" line for entries missing a field rather than guessing.
Milestones and hours by month round out the scroll.

The analytic tiles further down Totals: approaches 115, holds 5, autolands 2, multi-engine and turbine hours, actual instrument 17 hours 30 minutes, dual received and an 8 hour SIM tile, above an Insights link reading 387 hours 55 minutes flown in the last 12 months and an Hours by type list led by A320 at 424 hours 25 minutes — The deeper cuts: instrument, multi-engine, turbine and simulator time, and the per-type bars.

If you flew before Pilot EFB, Add career totals from before Pilot EFB at the foot of Totals takes your carried-forward hours; they join the totals but never the currency windows - the app cannot know when each pre-app landing happened, and says so rather than guessing.

Find and manage entries

The Entries segment is the record itself: every entry grouped by calendar month, newest first, with search across aircraft, airports, crew and remarks.

The Entries segment: a search field reading Search aircraft, ICAOs, crew, remarks above an August 2026 group with entry rows - a C172 local flight marked PIC, A320 sectors between EGLL, LEMD and LIRF marked SIC or PICUS, with PF chips on pilot-flying legs and landing counts on each row — Month-grouped entries with role and PF chips - and search that reaches crew names and remarks.

Filter entries (in the ... menu) narrows by date, aircraft, airport or role; Save current filter keeps the set as a Smart Group chip above the list.
Select entries turns on multi-select for bulk edit, duplicate or delete - with a preview of what changes before anything is written.
Tap any entry for its detail view: the route on a map, the recorded times, and the pencil to edit. Locked, signed entries say so on the row.

An entry detail view for a LIRF to EGLL night sector: the route drawn on a Europe map, 20 Aug with 2 hours 35 minutes block, an SIC role chip, Rome and London labels, and recorded time bars showing 2 hours night, 2 hours 35 IFR and 2 hours 35 cross-country — The entry detail: route flown, recorded time, and every field the entry carries - with edit one tap away.

Watch your recency

The Currency segment keeps the recency arithmetic honest. Three built-in rules track take-offs and landings over 90 days, night full-stop landings over 90 days, and instrument approaches over 6 calendar months - each card shows its count, status and next expiry, and opens into the list of qualifying entries. Your own rules (a type-specific landing rule, for example) are added from Add currency rule.

The Currency segment: a green You're current hero citing night full-stop landings 6 of 3 with next expiry 18 Oct, an info card explaining that currency is computed from logged landings and carry-forward totals are not counted, and rule cards for night full-stop landings and takeoffs and landings, both marked CURRENT with expiry dates — The recency cards: count, status, and the date it changes - computed only from logged entries.

Two honesty notes the screen itself makes: carry-forward totals never count toward currency, and the footer line - "Personal record only - not a certified legality check." - means exactly what it says. The night and instrument rules also want their evidence recorded on the entries (full-stop night landings, holding and course tracking); unrecorded evidence shows as lapsed rather than assumed.

Pro The free tier keeps your most urgent rule in view; the full grid, the Recency horizon - a timeline that scrubs your currency picture forward to any date - and the health check findings below are Pro.

Further down Currency: the instrument approaches rule at 50 of 6 marked CURRENT with next expiry 31 Jan 2027, an Add currency rule tile, and the Recency horizon card reading As of 25 Aug 2026: 5 current, 0 expiring, 0 lapsed, with a timeline scrubber, a list of 5 lapses in the next 12 months and an evaluate-as-of date field — The Recency horizon scrubs your whole currency picture forward - see what lapses next and when.

Check your record's health

Logbook health check (linked from the Currency segment) scans every entry for gaps and contradictions - a landing with no landing time, night time longer than block, a field left empty that your other entries record - and names each entry so you can fix it. It is advisory only: record-quality checks, never a currency or legality determination, and the screen says so.

The Logbook health screen: 251 entries scanned, a summary card reading 8 things to look at with zero contradictions, zero review suggested and 8 incomplete records, a note that the checks are advisory only, and findings naming specific entries missing an engine class, aircraft category or time basis — The health check names what is missing, entry by entry - and stays advisory.

See your flying on the map

The Map segment draws every logged route from your entries: great-circle tracks around your home base, nautical miles flown, airports and countries visited, and records like your longest leg and busiest route.

The Map segment: a Europe chart with route lines from EGLL to Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Madrid and Rome, a HOME BASE EGLL chip, and a stats card reading 110,773 nautical miles flown, 5.1 times around the world, 8 airports, 5 countries, 455 hours — Your logbook as a map: routes, reach and records, all derived from the entries.

Import a logbook

Coming from another app or a paper logbook's spreadsheet? Settings > Logbook > Import CSV walks a four-step wizard: pick the file, match its columns to Pilot EFB fields, review a dry-run summary - duplicates flagged, nothing written yet - then commit in one transaction. ForeFlight, LogTen Pro, mccPILOTLOG and Pilot EFB's own export are recognised automatically.

The Import CSV wizard on its first step: a four-step tracker reading File, Map, Review, Done, a card explaining that ForeFlight, LogTen Pro, mccPILOTLOG and Pilot EFB exports are supported with manual column mapping before any data is written, a How it works list and a Pick CSV file button — Import is a dry run first: map the columns, review what would be written, then commit.

Already keeping your duties in the Duty tab? Settings > Logbook > Build logbook from duties turns saved duty sectors into draft log entries, reviewed and confirmed before anything is created.

The ... menu's Add & export section is the way out - your records are yours to take anywhere:

Export	What it makes
Export CSV	All entries or a filtered set, in Pilot EFB, ForeFlight, LogTen Pro or mccPILOTLOG dialects - free
Export PDF Pro	A formatted logbook - standard FAA/EASA layout or airline-style professional formats
Experience report Pro	A career summary for job applications, section by section
8710 summary Pro	Category and class experience arranged for the FAA 8710-1 form
Share summary Pro	Plain text totals for a message or email - your name excluded by default

The Logbook menu sheet: an Edit section with Select entries, a Filter section with Filter entries and Save current filter, and an Add and export section listing New entry blank form, Export CSV, Export PDF in EASA format, Experience report, 8710 summary and Share summary — The entry menu: filters and Smart Groups above, every export below.

Charts, goals and career Pro

Insights (linked from Totals) is the analytics layer: set an hours goal and watch pace toward it, then scroll the career-total chart, hours by role, fleet mix, conditions and approaches by type. The career summary behind the header trophy condenses the same record into stat tiles, milestones and a year-in-review.

The Insights screen: a Goals card inviting you to set a first goal with an Add goal button, and a Career total card reading 454 hours 30 minutes with 390 hours 30 in the last 12 months, 32 hours 33 per month, and a rising cumulative hours chart from July 2025 to August 2026 — Insights: goals with pace tracking above the career curve.

Logbook on iPad

On iPad the Totals segment deals its cards into a multi-column board - the hero, window pills and tile grid lead full-width, and the per-type bars, records and milestones pack beside each other - so a whole career reads in one screen. The other segments keep the iPhone layout, full width.

The Logbook Totals board on iPad: the total time hero and a four-wide stat grid including air time, approaches, holds and simulator tiles, an Insights link, and hours-by-type bars beside records and averages tiles for the year, sectors, average sector and longest leg — The Totals board on iPad: the same cards, dealt into columns.

Where next

Duty & FTL - duties and flight time limits; the roster-to-logbook bridge connects the two.
Home - the Flight hours card and logbook health nudge that surface this module on the dashboard.
Free vs Pro - the exact free caps and what the subscription unlocks.