Keeping an eye on running totals and looming currency deadlines is the part of a logbook pilots most often neglect. This tracker lets you enter each flight, keeps live totals of time, night, IFR, cross-country, and landings, and flags the core FAR 61 currency items so you know when a flight review or night-landing window is about to lapse.
How it works
Each entry contributes to category totals, and recency windows count only recent items:
total time = Σ duration
night / IFR = Σ night, Σ IFR across all entries
landings = Σ day landings + Σ night landings
day currency = 3+ landings in the last 90 days
night cur. = 3+ night full-stop landings in the last 90 days
flight review= last review within 24 calendar months
instrument = 6+ approaches in the last 6 calendar monthsCurrency is date-driven: an item drops out of the window automatically once it ages past the recency period, which is why the tool re-evaluates against today’s date every time you load it.
Example and tips
A pilot with three full-stop night landings logged 40 days ago is night-current for another 50 days; if all three were touch-and-go they would not count for night passenger carriage. Log instrument approaches with their dates so the six-month instrument window is accurate. Remember this is a personal aid only — your official logbook remains the legal record for checkrides, ratings, and insurance.