Mr Wilson has created a great yet easy to use and simple spreadsheet in excel. Then I realized one thing: I couldn’t be the only pilot who ever wanted a nice spreadsheet to log time. Since I often backup my personal data to several locations redundancy was not a concern. I could make something decent, throw in a few macros for some charts and have something that was very simple to extract data from later.

So my next idea was to make an Excel spreadsheet. I am looking for something very simple and don’t want to pay for it. I would also have to download a backup anyway just so I didn’t have to worry about that. In the world of aviation it is sadly quite common for a company to just shut its doors one day. The first is I am relying on that third party to handle my data. I have two hangups with third party providers. There are several online/software based logbook companies out there. While the book is great for a hard copy I wanted a faster way to pull up my time and a way to break down hours more efficiently.

It is a simple yet well laid out book that you can see here. My current logbook is one I purchased from Sporty’s Pilot Shop. I have also run into several occasions where I needed to know my current total time or pilot in command hours. While I am closing in on that magical 100hrs of total time I started thinking about a way to backup my logbook just in case. We all know that tracking our hours is not only useful it is also quite rewarding.

Free excel pilot logbook