Formation Flight Log
Specialised flight log for formation pilots — position flown and more, with live totals and CSV export.
Formation flying for airshows requires FFI/FAST card qualifications with documented currency; even recreational formation work is insurance-sensitive and briefing-driven.
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⚠️ Not for operational decisions. This is a record-keeping and planning aid only — not certified avionics, not a source of regulatory truth. Always verify against official sources (FAA/EASA/DGCA) and your operator's approved documents before flying.
Free formation flight log built for formation pilots: per-flight records of position flown, lead/wing role and card qualifications, rolling 12-month activity, and CSV exports for operators, insurers and waiver paperwork.
About Formation Flight Log
Formation flying for airshows requires FFI/FAST card qualifications with documented currency; even recreational formation work is insurance-sensitive and briefing-driven. A generic logbook flattens this work into hours; what formation pilots actually need on file is position flown, lead/wing role and card qualifications — the operation-specific details that recency rules, waivers, clubs and underwriters ask about. Each entry here captures those alongside time, the tiles maintain lifetime and rolling 12-month activity (the window most specialty recency runs on), and the export produces the record an operator or FSDO can audit in one pass. The discipline costs thirty seconds per flight and pays out the first time someone official asks.
How to use Formation Flight Log
- 1Log each flight with its operation-specific details and event counts.
- 2Watch lifetime and 12-month tiles maintain your currency story.
- 3Export the CSV for duty rosters, renewals and insurance questions.
Why use Formation Flight Log?
- ✓Operation-specific fields: position flown, lead/wing role and card qualifications
- ✓Rolling 12-month activity — the window specialty recency uses
- ✓Lifetime event counts beside hour totals
- ✓Audit-ready CSV for operators, clubs, insurers and waivers
- ✓Browser-private, free, no account
Frequently asked questions
How does formation currency work for airshow flying?+
Airshow formation work requires a FAST (Formation And Safety Team) card or equivalent, with wingman/lead qualifications maintained through documented sorties and periodic check flights — typically requiring recent formation experience within the preceding 12 months. This log records position, role and the card-relevant details per sortie so renewals and waiver paperwork pull straight from your record.
How is this different from my main logbook?+
Your master logbook stays the legal record; this is the specialty ledger where position flown get structured columns instead of remarks-field burial. Specialty operations are audited on specialty data — counts, configurations and conditions — and pulling those out of years of mixed entries is exactly the chore this single-purpose log eliminates.
What totals matter most in this kind of flying?+
Event counts over hours: formation pilots are evaluated on documented operations — the 12-month rolling figure this tool headlines — more than on accumulated time. Insurers and operators read recency as competence in specialty work, so a current 12-month number with per-event detail behind it is the strongest record you can present.
What happens to my entries if I clear my browser?+
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.
What format does the export use and what reads it?+
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 operations record is never trapped here.
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