I use a paper log book and logbook.aero – which automatically backs up to dropbox in Excel format after every new entry. GPS tracks are shown within logbook.aero and stored seperately on a HD at home as well as the SkyDemon debriefing packs.
I started my PPL in 1999 and got an earlier edition of the ‘carnet de vol’ shown in the first post of this thread from DGAC. Since I’m only a PPL it’s still not filled up, and pn every page I replace the 19 to 20 for the year number :-)
I also replaced some of the column I’m unlikely to ever need to be able to log Seaplane hours separately as well as instruction separately.
This is a nice thread.
I have small UK hardback logbooks (I’m on my second). I consider them as a flying diary, with personal comments where appropriate, eg “First flight with my son”. In parallel I fill in an excel sheet should something happen to my actual logbooks. I find the former a pleasure and the latter a chore…
Regards, SD..
Who asks this? very specialised
That particular question I made up on the spot. But there were some similarly ridiculous ones I needed to answer for the BASA process to get my French PPL.
The first entry in my first logbook, on the Piper Cub L-4 HB-ODC, dated 6 August 1979 is labelled “Vol d’introduction – Intro Flight” 
This picture shows all my paper logbooks… of note the red ones denote the first few years as a PPL, the blue ones used when I started flying for food 
Since those were filling up pretty fast, I went fully electronic in 2008, even copying all the entries of my paper logbooks into Logten Pro, the original program which I’m still using today. I’m fascinated at the ease any kind of stats can be pulled out of the electronic register, and whilst transferring the data I was able to correct more than one mistake in the totals
For licence renewal I usually print out the last 10 pages or so, and this has worked pretty good up to now…
Maoraigh wrote:
If I’d started with an electronic recording format in 1964, would there still be a tool to access the record today?
Had a meet up with other pilots this weekend. The consensus is that all up until a couple of years ago, the bureaucracy made things overly difficult. Today digitalization has taken over for bureaucracy I am never going over to electronic logbook.
I use, and intend continuing to use, the standard UK logbook. I’m nearing the end of my third book.
If I’d started with an electronic recording format in 1964, would there still be a tool to access the record today?
when you get asked how many hours you’ve done under the hood in a taildragger in the last 27 months
Who asks this? very specialised
I have stopped using paper logbooks about a year ago. Sat down during some idle time and transferred all the pre-GPS-data flights manually to ForeFlight and that was that. Now only using the FF logs which also make it much easier to break out things like MEP/SEP, x-country, etc. The entries are derived from FF logging and, failing that, from the Hobbs or Tach times, depending on the airplane I fly. Have no intention to ever use a paper log again, although I do recognize the nostalgia value of flipping through the pages and remembering certain flights.
I do transfer my flights “sometimes” into a self-designed PostgreSQL database
I used to do much the same thing, using Excel – far easier than paper when you get asked how many hours you’ve done under the hood in a taildragger in the last 27 months, or whatever. I switched to MFB because the FAA started accepting electronic logbooks, and also you get shared access and you can access from anywhere. Generally it can do the analysis you need, and if not it will export to a CSV file.
Plus doing their airport quiz is fun.
