Actual Instrument Time Tracker

Time flown solely by reference to instruments under actual conditions — which is about the weather you were in, not the flight plan you were on. An IFR clearance in CAVU skies produces zero actual; VFR-on-top through a layer can produce some. Note the conditions (ceiling, visibility, cloud layers) in the context field on each entry: that note is what makes the claim stick years later.

Defensibility and speed. Actual IMC is logged on conditions, not clearances — a defensible record notes the conditions that made it loggable — so the winning record is one where every entry already carries its qualifying context and the totals are recomputed continuously. Thirty seconds of logging per qualifying flight buys you instant, auditable answers for the rest of your career.

Because the follow-up question to any lifetime total is always 'and recently?' Insurance renewals quote on 12-month actual instrument activity, checkout policies on 90-day recency, and interviewers read recent columns as current competence. The tiles recompute both windows on every page load, so the recency answer is as current as the lifetime one.

No account and no connection are needed once the page has loaded — all records are kept in local storage on your device and all calculations run in your browser. The trade-off is that data does not sync between devices, so export the CSV file when you want to move or archive your records.

A plain CSV with one row per entry and labelled column headers — the most portable format there is. Spreadsheets open it directly, every major electronic logbook can map it on import, and a printed copy is perfectly legible to a human reviewer. Nothing proprietary means your actual instrument record is never trapped here.