FAA IFR Currency Tracker (61.57c)

You lose IFR PIC privileges but get a 6-month grace period to regain currency with a safety pilot — fly the approaches, holds and tracking under simulated conditions and log them. If THAT window also passes, 61.57(d) requires an instrument proficiency check (IPC) with an instructor or examiner. This tracker shows the lapse date so you can use the cheaper safety-pilot path in time.

Yes — approaches in a full flight simulator, FTD or aviation training device count without an instructor present (under the current rule) as long as the device is approved and you log the session properly. That makes a $90 AATD hour the cheapest way to stay legal through a slow winter, and this tool has a conditions field so sim and aircraft approaches are distinguishable in your record.

No. To count, an approach must be flown in actual instrument conditions or under simulated instrument conditions (view-limiting device) — and the FAA's interpretation requires flying it to the appropriate minimums. A visual approach logged as 'RNAV practice' without a hood and safety pilot doesn't refresh currency, which is exactly the kind of soft entry this structured log helps you avoid.

Clearing site data or doing a full browser reset deletes locally stored entries — that is the price of a genuinely private, server-free design. Protect yourself with the one-click CSV download before any cleanup, OS reinstall or new laptop: re-importing your history later is far easier than reconstructing it from memory.

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 instrument currency record is never trapped here.