Jun 17, 2017 Pro Tip. I import my flights from Crew Connect.Read my earlier article about CrewConnect’s export to LogTen Pro X function. Oh, download LogTen Pro X from the App Store if you haven’t done so! If you are looking for CrewConnect, download it here! LogTen Pro X’s Radar Page.
- LogTen Pro (was LogTen Pro Centurion) is an international pilot logbook platform for all your Apple devices. It is the tool of choice for tens of thousands of pilots in nearly 200 countries, and every major airline.
- . LogTen Pro version 6 was designed in 2011, and does not run on iOS 11. This simple app allows your LogTen Pro 6 logbook to be transferred to the latest version of LogTen Pro where you can view and edit your existing entries, generate reports, and more at no charge.
- LogTen Pro is the most advanced pilot logbook for iOS, used by over 100,000 pilots world wide to track flight time, currency, endorsements, duty, rest, BFRs and more. “Super easy to use and quick setup. Huge time saver, whether for certification, insurance, tax or job apps. LogTen Pro will easily save you 15 to 20 hours of agony every year.
- LogTen Pro is the world’s most advanced pilot logbook software for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Designed to take full advantage of the latest operating systems and Apple hardware, LogTen Pro is so much more than your logbook.
LogTen Pro 5.1.4
Developer: Coradine Aviation Systems
Price: $100
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5. Universal.
Trial: Fully-featured (40 flights).
LogTen Mobile 2.4.1
Developer: Coradine Aviation Systems
Price: $40
Requirements: iPhone OS 2.2.
Trial: Feature-limited (“Basic” version free in App Store).
The last time ATPM looked at LogTenwas five years and three major versions ago, back when Mac OS X 10.3 was thelatest and greatest and the iPhone was just a pipe dream on rumor sites. WhileLogTen still works as a fantastic pilot logbook, enough has changed that it’sworth another look.
The biggest change since the 2.5 era is that LogTen Pro is once again a singleproduct. LogTen Express has disappeared, and with that disappearance the costof entry has risen to $100. That’s $10 more than LogTen Pro was five years ago,but the newest version is far more powerful than—and just as fast as—itspredecessor.
The tremendous popularity of the iPhone made making a mobile version of LogTen ano-brainer. While there is a basic version available for free, the realfunctionality is in LogTen Mobile, a $40 application targeted primarily atprofessional pilots earning a paycheck from their flying.
Since the last review, when I was still a student, I have been both a flightinstructor and an airline pilot. As my day job is now that of an airline firstofficer, the review is primarily from that perspective, although I’ve tried tobe as universal as I can in my evaluation. For privacy reasons, some of thescreenshot data has been blurred to protect the identities of my currentemployer and co-workers.
Getting Started
New pilots just starting off are greeted with a splash screen of sorts, offeringa variety of different configurations for the user to select. As you can seefrom the screenshot, anyone from student pilots all the way up to airlinecaptains is covered. Each of the various base configurations can be furthercustomized to the user’s liking later on.
Once you’ve selected a configuration, the main window appears with your logbooklaid out like a giant spreadsheet.
Main Table
Data can be entered directly in the table—and yes, the various columns can becustomized or hidden entirely—or via a “details” view that can be shown with thewidget in the bottom-right corner.
Main Table With Details and Data
Managing Data
LogTen Pro now has the ability to manage not only flight data, but also datapertaining to the aircraft you’ve flown, the airports you’ve visited, the peopleyou’ve flown with (including, for airline types, cabin crewmembers, and forinstructor types, students), and the certificates you hold. There wasrudimentary certificate management in LogTen 2.5, but version 5 has the abilityto associate specific certificates with individual flights.
The Aircraft manager allows you to see at a glance how much total time you havein any given aircraft. The Types manager (not shown) does the same forindividual types.
The Places manager shows all the airports you’ve visited, along with far moredata than you ever wanted to know about each one.
Places (Airports) View
The People manager allows you to track the other crewmembers, instructors,passengers, or students you’ve flown with, along with their capacities on eachflight.
Each of the various managers has a miniature version of the main table filledwith data applicable to whatever is selected in the manager. For instance, inthe screenshot of the Aircraft manager above, you can see a table of all theflights I’ve done in that particular aircraft. A minor annoyance is that thesemini-tables do not retain their sort state across launches of LogTen Pro. Alarger annoyance is that the tables in the various managers don’t, either. Themain Flights table, which is where most of the action happens anyway, does, soit’s not a big deal for most people, and the developer, who remains extremelyresponsive to user feedback, has promised he’ll look into this.
Importing Data
The whole point of an electronic logbook is to simplify data entry and analysis.To this end, one of the biggest new features in LogTen Pro 5 is scheduleimporting for most airlines. While having a direct connection to a companydatabase is still essentially impossible for most airline pilots, there’s aversatile importer that allows for copy-and-paste input of the vast majority ofairline schedule formats.
There are a few electronic formats still unsupported, but the team at Coradinehas done an excellent job of adding support for unrecognized formats in minorupdates.
Importing data from other logbook programs has also been greatly improved sincethe last review. Both CSV and tab-separated formats are supported, and with afew exceptions, other logbook programs—even those on Windows—can be coerced intoproviding data in these formats.
Reports and Smart Groups
While the new schedule importer simplifies the data entry half of the equation,the report generator and smart groups are even better than before. The reportgenerator is still the means by which a paper logbook can be generated, but nowthere are options to fill nearly every possible need. WebKit is still the brainsbehind the report generator, so if you need a logbook format that isn’t includedin the application, it’s easy to create one with some basic knowledge of HTMLand CSS.
Got a checkride coming up? Your FAA 8710 report is just a few seconds away.
Need to update your résumé or fill out a job application? Total flightexperience and time by type reports are easy to generate, too.
Report — Flight Experience
LogTen Pro has dispensed entirely with the custom (and FAA-specific) currencytracker that was incorporated into version 2.5 and now uses Smart Groups foreverything. It ships with a set of Smart Groups that address landings andinstrument currency. For airline pilots, tracking flight- and duty-timelimitations is similarly easy; there are Smart Groups for 30-in-7, 100-in-30,and 1000/year that keep you apprised of any limitations you’re approaching.
Smart Group — Day Landings Currency
Making custom Smart Groups is easy, too, if you have other needs, and all thedefault groups can be customized if your regulating authority has differentlimitations.
Logten Pro Windows
Smart Group — Seaplane Time
LogTen Mobile
Accompanying LogTen Pro and making the airline pilot’s life even easier is theLogTen Mobile application for the iPhone. While it’s primarily useful forairline pilots, I would have found it valuable as an instructor as well. It’seasier to carry an iPhone than a Mac, and updating flight times is just a matterof a few taps on the screen no matter what sort of aviating you do.
The main flights view in LogTen Mobile shows your most recent completed flightsin grey (the default is the last 20, though you can make this larger at theexpense of speed in launching the application on the phone) and future scheduledflights in orange. Tapping on a flight brings up a detail view where you canreview and edit the details of a particular flight. The editing isn’t asfull-featured as it is in the desktop application—you can’t manage aircraft,airports, or crewmembers—but it gets the job done, and all the important stuff iscovered. You can easily add flights from the phone itself if need be, though Ipersonally greatly prefer adding flights via LogTen Pro and a regular keyboard.(Deleting flights is easy in both applications.)
Mobile — Current Flight View
LogTen Mobile also allows you to see, at a glance, a Totals report similar tothe résumé report in LogTen Pro, an overview of common duty- and flight-timelimitations, and the status of your various pilot, instructor, and medicalcertificates.
Mobile — Totals View
Finally, and most importantly, LogTen Mobile supports syncing with LogTen Pro sothat the data on both is always current. Syncing is only supported via WiFi(Apple has yet to open up the USB sync API on the iPhone to third-partydevelopers, so the only thing that happens when you connect the iPhone to yourMac is a normal backup of LogTen Mobile’s application data), and some users havefound WiFi sync to be problematic. I’ve been using it without issue for severalmonths, however.
Mobile — Certificates View
The Bottom Line
The value proposition is pretty much the same as it’s always been. NeitherLogTen Pro or Mobile is priced to be an “impulse buy,” but neither are they tooexpensive for the abilities they provide. Much has been made of pricing in theApp Store, but $40 seems reasonable for an iPhone application primarily targetedat professionals. The $99 price of LogTen Pro is on par with Windows-basedlogbook software, though still a high price to pay for many instructors (orunderpaid regional first officers).
Both applications are good Mac citizens, although the complexity of LogTen Prohas certainly increased dramatically since the last review, and with thatcomplexity has come a marginal decrease in ease of use. First-time users may besomewhat intimidated by the degree of complexity in the application, but thedevelopment team has done a good job trying to keep things as simple aspossible. Unfortunately, the level of flight experience and the level of comfortwith computers don’t always correspond, so, paradoxically, new users who areextremely experienced aviators are probably the most likely to struggle with thecomplexity of the application. This would be a big knock against LogTen if itweren’t for the fantastic level of support provided on the company’s Webforum. In addition to the official support fromthe development staff, there’s a small community of users who are willing tohelp out if anyone gets stuck.
For professional pilots, I really can’t recommend these two applications highlyenough. LogTen Mobile is something the hobbyist or private pilot can certainlydo without, but LogTen Pro is a valuable tool for pilots at all levels.
Copyright © 2009 Chris Lawson. Reviewing inATPM is open to anyone. If you’re interested, write to us atreviews@atpm.com.
Switching from LogTen PRO
to CrewLounge PILOTLOG
We are being swamped by pilots that quit on LogTen Pro as Coradine introduced its new subscription plan some time ago.
Many pilots reported to be enraged by the expensive annual charge, going above 4,000 USD for a 30-years flying career. We’ll be honest : LogTen Pro is a nice logbook software (and so are we :), but should you really pay that much for keeping track of your flight hours ?!
Certainly not ! Join CrewLounge AERO and pay 80% less ! Many pilots have successfully switched to CrewLounge PILOTLOG (formerly mccPILOTLOG) in the past years. Here are some questions they faced :
1. Does PILOTLOG run on Mac ?
CrewLounge PILOTLOG was originally developed as a Windows desktop application. Version 5.0 is a cross-platform application that runs straight on your Mac OS without the need for any virtual windows !
Cross-platform desktop applications may not have the ”look-and-feel” you would expect from native Mac software, that must be said. In return, you get the freedom of combining any desktop platform with any mobile device ! Yes, you can sync your Blackberry phone with Windows Surface, or your Android Phone with a MacBook !
And more important : our mobile applications are native code ! So, you have the full iOS and Android experience with CrewLounge PILOTLOG.
2. What devices can I use ?
You can run CrewLounge PILOTLOG on five different devices, in any combination.
Version 5 supports the following platforms :
Logten Pro Map
- (desktop / laptop) Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Mac OS X (Mavericks / Yosemite / El Capitan / Sierra / High Sierra / Mojave)
- (phone) iPhone, Android, Amazon Kindle, BlackBerry
- (tablet) iPad, Android, Windows Surface
We do no longer support Windows Phone and we do not support Linux. Sorry about that.
3.Why did you change to a subscription plan, similar to Coradine ?
There are many logbook applications out there, usually developed by a pilot in his/her off-days. Most of them disappear after a few years, as the workload becomes too high.
We are here to stay ! A team of more than 20 full-time developers and support agents work clock-round on CrewLounge apps. It’s simple math to understand the balance between monthly returning salary costs versus one-time earnings… The new subscription model ensures the company’s long-term health.
Logten Pro Pc
But it does not have to be that expensive ! Our subscription price is much, much lower, in fact 80% cheaper ! You can use CrewLounge PILOTLOG (desktop + mobile) for only 2 EUR (about 2,5 USD) per month, compared to nearly 10 EUR ( 11 USD) with Coradine. Can’t believe it ? Check it out here :
Logbook Pro Vs Logten Pro
4. Can I import my records from LogTen Pro ?
Logten Pro 6
CrewLounge PILOTLOG imports data from 50 other electronic logbooks, including LogTen Pro. Follow the guidelines published here.