Simviation Forum - Log Book Help

Sep 8^th, 2007 at 11:35pm

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Hey everybody. Does anyone know of an accurate logook to use for FSX? The included one is not working for me. Due to my busy schedule, I am forced to pause and continue during long flights, making it difficult to manually log my hours. Does anyone use a different method/program to log their hours? I am using good old pen and paper now, yet it is tedious to track a long flight when you have to start and stop constantly. Any help is grately appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

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Reply #1 - Sep 9^th, 2007 at 2:37pm

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Cheers and hope some of this answers your questions and helps you out. My FSX logbook seems to work pretty well for me as far as keeping track, bit it isn't perfect. Here's what I do on long flights: I'll do the pause and continue if I only have to walk away from it for 15 minutes or so. If I have to walk away from it for longer periods than that, I usually save the flight and then pick it up again at a later time. I personally haven't noticed any FSX logbook problems with those methods. Someone once mentioned in this forum getting an "official" flight logbook from a flight school or airport...I don't recall the price exactly, but I think around 10 dollars US was mentioned. THat does bring you back to the "pen and paper" thing, but you may be able to keep a more acurate record of your flights with it and then compare it to the FSX logbook. Sure hope you get some more input on this one to help you out further!

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Reply #2 - Sep 9^th, 2007 at 2:53pm

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Thanks Nigel. My problem is this: The FSX logbook doesn't keep track of my flights at all. (I have even tried a reinstall without success) I have logged around 100 hours so far, yet not one minute shows up in the FSX log. That's what is forcing me to use pen and paper. I would like to use a logbook program that I can install into FSX. Interested to hear if anyone else has this problem, or is it just me? Huh

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Reply #3 - Sep 9^th, 2007 at 3:50pm

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jnigeld11 wrote on Sep 9^th, 2007 at 2:37pm:

Someone once mentioned in this forum getting an "official" flight logbook from a flight school or airport...I don't recall the price exactly, but I think around 10 dollars US was mentioned. THat does bring you back to the "pen and paper" thing, but you may be able to keep a more acurate record of your flights with it and then compare it to the FSX logbook.

Correct...an official logbook will run you about 10 bucks, which you can get online or at any pilot shop/FBO/flight school.

There are plenty of add on logbooks availible on SimV and Avsim. Do a search and you should find a view.

THe FSX logbook is really succeptable to corruption. To prevent it, only add comments to/edit your most recent entry, and for accuracy, don't fly two legs in one flight, otherwise youll end up with random landing airports.

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Reply #4 - Sep 9^th, 2007 at 9:48pm

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Yeah, it's frustrating. I can't do anything with it. I just get the logbook on the screen. But I did find a little stopwatch program called "VFR Timer". (I should have done a little more looking than I did!) Works just like a stopwatch. Easy solution. Still, I wish the logbook worked. Thanks for the help everyone!

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Reply #5 - Sep 9^th, 2007 at 10:05pm

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jnigeld11 wrote on Sep 9^th, 2007 at 2:37pm:

Someone once mentioned in this forum getting an "official" flight logbook from a flight school or airport...I don't recall the price exactly, but I think around 10 dollars US was mentioned. THat does bring you back to the "pen and paper" thing, but you may be able to keep a more acurate record of your flights with it and then compare it to the FSX logbook. Sure hope you get some more input on this one to help you out further!

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Nigel

That was me. I got it at the same school where I learned to fly. Too bad my instructor has moved on to bigger and better things. It cost about $10 a couple years ago. I haven't priced one recently but I doubt they've gone past $20. Almost any local airport should sell them. In my opinion it makes it a lot more realistic to pull out the logbook and enter the info than the default FS9 and FSX logbooks.

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Reply #6 - Sep 10^th, 2007 at 6:18am

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Lefsa123 wrote on Sep 8^th, 2007 at 11:35pm:

Hey everybody. Does anyone know of an accurate logook to use for FSX? The included one is not working for me. Due to my busy schedule, I am forced to pause and continue during long flights, making it difficult to manually log my hours. Does anyone use a different method/program to log their hours? I am using good old pen and paper now, yet it is tedious to track a long flight when you have to start and stop constantly. Any help is grately appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

Heard that the logbook of the older FS worked better, and so I said it before and say it again: FSX programming is sloppy like a lot of stuff coming from the biggest Software maker in the world. It is a sham(e). MS could do much much better if they would put their mind to it. But the level of arrogance overrides logical (even commercial) thinking. The latter because well programmed Simulations would sell better.
The Logbook enters data in the Temp file, which, if you clean up your computer once in a while, gets tossed. Once you've done this the book stays empty or will just log a few flights. I read somewhere that there will be a logbook editor, have the first imperfect version... The problem is I cant find the file where the REWARDS are stored. Anyone?

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Reply #7 - Sep 20^th, 2007 at 3:49am

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Try deleting the logbook file in your microsoft flight simulator X documents and when you start MSFSX up again it will create a new logbook. Try that.

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Reply #8 - Sep 20^th, 2007 at 5:38am

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I`ve always been able to reproduce the logbook and continue working from where it left off, however this didn`t work after I formatted and reinstalled the last time. No matter what I did, when I copied the book and the rewards in the rewards showed but the book was empty, even though it showed 67kb or whatever. I tried many times but had to leave the situation as it was for some 6 weeks. Eventually, I found their were one or two unrelated incidents with FSX or add ons so I decided to strip FSX, SP1 and all the add ons out and reinstall.

I got rid of everything systematically, then installed FSX, then the old logbook-which I knew wouldn`t work anyway. Only it did, because I checked it and FSX so that it would build a new FSX.cfg prior to the SP1 install. The rewards were there anyway thankfully, and as the logbook showed 1196 hours I was well pleased, the 6 weeks I hadn`t logged were lost but there you go. Next, I installed SP1 and Traffic, then the usual add ons. The log book continued working throughout and I just checked, yesterdays flight from EGCC to LEAL was recorded correctly. What I may have done in the past is install the logbook only after SP1 has been installed, which plainly didn`t work as planned! Just a word to the wise........

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