Student Pilot Logbook

Three things, per 61.87: training in the listed pre-solo manoeuvres for the aircraft make and model, a passed pre-solo written administered by your instructor, and the solo endorsement itself (valid 90 days). Examiners later cross-check these dates at the private checkride, so a student logbook that keeps lesson topics structured — as this one does — prevents the classic 'missing manoeuvre' scramble.

Because school records track lessons while the regulation tracks categories of experience, and the two drift: a night flight logged without the XC tag, hood time without the instructor's name, a 'cross-country' that doesn't meet the distance definition. Tagging each flight against the regulation's own buckets at logging time — not at checkride-prep time — collapses that drift to zero.

No — examiners verify your endorsed paper or certified electronic logbook. This is the planning layer that makes sure the official record will SURVIVE that verification: complete buckets, no surprises. Bring both: the logbook as evidence, this export as the index that lets you answer 'show me your night cross-country' in five seconds.

By design: career and currency records are sensitive, and the simplest privacy guarantee is never transmitting them. Local-only storage means zero servers, zero breach surface and zero subscription. If you fly from several devices, keep one as the master record and move snapshots between machines with the CSV export.

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 training progress record is never trapped here.