Instrument Instruction (CFII) Log

The FAA's position (the 2008 'Gebhart' line of interpretations): an instructor giving instrument instruction may log instrument flight time when acting as an authorized instructor in actual instrument conditions — sim instrument time while a student wears the hood in VMC is the student's, not the instructor's. Keep your own actual-IMC instruction separated, as this log does, and your instrument-time claims survive scrutiny.

61.189(c) requires instructors to keep a record of endorsements for knowledge and practical tests, and solo endorsements, for at least 3 years — including the kind of test or check and the result. Many instructors keep them for their entire career because renewal-by-activity, Gold Seal applications and employment verification can reach back further than the regulatory minimum.

No — Part 141 schools and most 61 academies maintain their own official training records, and those remain the documents of record. This is the instructor's personal layer: your portable evidence of activity that survives job changes, school closures and software migrations, in a plain CSV you control. The two should agree; yours is the one you can produce in five seconds.

Only you. Entries live in your browser's local storage and never leave your device, so there is no account, no cloud sync and no one else with access. Because the data is device-local, remember to export a CSV backup before clearing browser data or switching computers.

Yes — one click exports your complete instruction record as a CSV file that opens in Excel, Google Sheets or Numbers. The export preserves every column exactly as entered, so you can print it, attach it to an application, or hand it to an examiner, inspector or insurance underwriter as a supporting summary alongside your official records.