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Yes they are responsive and are fully aware of my suggestion but I have tried to build a list of things I liked and disliked about it. Thought I would share with you some of those thoughts. I decided to create a separate topic for things to improve on.

I wrote a review about ForeFlight. I suggested creating a separate topic on areas for improvement. There are a lot of good things about the logbook but there are a lot of things that can be improved too. One of my major annoyances right now is the inability to filter flights in the logbook entry screen. I think it would be helpful to be able to select the custom date range (currently there is a set date range of All, 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, 6 months, and 12 months) and maybe some other parameters like hours or location. I can do it if I export my data and open it in excel but that kind of defeats the purpose haha. I thought this would be something in the foreflight web app at the very least but it isn't :(. Foreflight is still in beta currently though so maybe they will add some things to it for the logbook. I also would like to print out all of my flights. I like the experience report. Its very sleek looking and breaks time down very well but I feel like I should have the ability to print out the flights line by line over a chosen date range or for one airplane type or different parameters in order to have a paper version or a very specific electronic summary report. One of the smaller features I would like to see added to the logbook is the ability to auto fill forms like 8710 and other applications. This feature is kind of only for those who are going through their training because its quite a pain to put all that info into IACRA every time and double check it. I had emailed them about it awhile back and they replied that it was "on their radar". I did mention earlier that the consolidation was my favorite thing about flying with ForeFlight and it is a plus but there a few things that would make it better. One thing that I noticed was that if I build a flight plan with an instrument approach in it and then hit "send to logbook" it wont recognize the approach. I don't know if that is user error or just an oversight but that could definitely help with streamlining this feature. Along with this I wish the record feature would suggest more input options when making the logbook entry. Maybesuggesting airports for the "route" portion (it already does this for the "to" portion of the entry") or maybe number of landings. Right not it seems to only be geared for those A to B flights (which isn't bad) Also, why don't the aircraft I input into my logbook also enter into my aircraft selection when creating a flight plan?

Things To Improve There are a lot of good things about the logbook but there are a lot of things that can be improved too. One of my major annoyances right now is the inability to filter flights in the logbook entry screen. I think it would be helpful to be able to select the custom date range (currently there is a set date range of All, 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, 6 months, and 12 months) and maybe some other parameters like hours or location. I can do it if I export my data and open it in excel but that kind of defeats the purpose haha. I thought this would be something in the foreflight web app at the very least but it isn't :(. Foreflight is still in beta currently though so maybe they will add some things to it for the logbook. I also would like to print out all of my flights. I like the experience report. Its very sleek looking and breaks time down very well but I feel like I should have the ability to print out the flights line by line over a chosen date range or for one airplane type or different parameters in order to have a paper version or a very specific electronic summary report. One of the smaller features I would like to see added to the logbook is the ability to auto fill forms like 8710 and other applications. This feature is kind of only for those who are going through their training because its quite a pain to put all that info into IACRA every time and double check it. I had emailed them about it awhile back and they replied that it was "on their radar". I did mention earlier that the consolidation was my favorite thing about flying with ForeFlight and it is a plus but there a few things that would make it better. One thing that I noticed was that if I build a flight plan with an instrument approach in it and then hit "send to logbook" it wont recognize the approach. I don't know if that is user error or just an oversight but that could definitely help with streamlining this feature. Along with this I wish the record feature would suggest more input options when making the logbook entry. Maybe suggesting airports for the "route" portion (it already does this for the "to" portion of the entry") or maybe number of landings. Right not it seems to only be geared for those A to B flights (which isn't bad) Also, why don't the aircraft I input into my logbook also enter into my aircraft selection when creating a flight plan?

The Good By FAR my favorite part of having my electronic logbook with ForeFlight is the consolidation. I now can take recorded flights or flight plans and import them directly to my logbook. After a few adjustments to maybe aircraft specifications (which it will remember later) or the type of time I can put approve and go. I do have some small grievances with this feature that Ill touch on later. LogTen does have a similar features with the ability to locate you via the device you're using but like I said, consolidation. Being able to do that without changing programs is a plus for me. It is likely not much of a plus for the ATP crowd because they don't have a need for Foreflight. With how the Foreflight team has made it part of the PRO subscription it doesn't seem like pilots flying at the level are really the target audience of Foreflight yet. The logbook does offer several different options for dividing up the time that you have in their Experience reports. Between ASEL and AMEL or between types of engines. It does show you how much you have of PIC in each of those categories too. All of these are nice things but I think we can agree its expected for a product like this to have these kinds of things. I also enjoy how they have a certain "catalog" for options when inputing different items such as Approach type and being able to "tag" flights as things like checkride IPC or otherwise. That does make things a lot easier for choosing things. There are several other small things that I really like but I wont go over them one by one I just wanted to emphasize some things I liked.. Overall I feel like it satisfies the major requirements in order to be a good competitor in the electronic logbook market. Things like having lots of options while filling out log entries and being able to add certifications are things that I expected from this and it completely fulfilled them. That being said I don't think they are utilizing their full potential so I do have some suggestions.

I have recently been searching for a good electronic logbook to use instead of hassling with my very messy paper logbook. I also felt having an electronic logbook would be an added layer of protection in case my paper one is lost or destroyed. I know there are many free versions out there that still "get the job done" but I wanted to choose something a bit more professional looking. When it comes down to it the simplest solution for an electronic logbook would to just create an excel spreadsheet and upload that to google drive or some other cloud service. During my search I briefly tried LogTen and another small provider that I cant remember which I liked but kept having trouble with cloud sync (which kind of defeated the purpose of electronic logbook imo). Earlier this year Foreflight released their version and since I hadn't 100% committed to any provider yet I decided to give it a shot. I already use foreflight pro for work so it seemed like a no-brainer. Over the last couple weeks of using it I have tried to build a list of things I liked and disliked about it. Thought I would share with you some of those thoughts later in the comments session. I would also like to add before I start that I am no expert on ForeFlight so if you have a fix for something I complained about then share

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