Mountain Flying Checkout Log

Training in mountain and high-density-altitude operations, working through density altitude performance, ridge crossing technique, canyon turns and mountain weather, concluded by a logbook endorsement from an authorized instructor certifying proficiency. not an FAA endorsement — but clubs, insurers and Colorado/Idaho operators commonly require a documented checkout. There is no minimum hour requirement in the rule itself — proficiency is the standard — but insurers frequently impose their own minimum dual hours, which is why the running dual-time total here matters beyond the legal endorsement.

The endorsement itself lives in your logbook and travels with you everywhere. What each new school or underwriter then asks for is the history behind it — dates, instructor, dual received and recency since. That's the file this log maintains: portable evidence that turns every new checkout conversation into a formality.

An appropriately rated flight instructor — and for mountain and high-density-altitude operations, one with genuine background in the configuration is worth seeking out, since the rule's proficiency standard means the instructor's judgement IS the gate. Record every instructor in the log: future insurers and schools read a training history with named instructors as substantially stronger evidence than hours alone.

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.

Always — the CSV export is a complete, lossless dump of your training record, generated locally in one click. Import it into commercial logbook software, archive it in your records folder, or post-process it in a spreadsheet. No lock-in is a deliberate design decision: data you can't take with you isn't really yours.