Tailwheel Time Tracker
Isolate your tailwheel time: log only qualifying flights and keep lifetime, 12-month and 90-day tailwheel totals audit-ready.
Why a separate tailwheel record: tailwheel insurability decays fast — underwriters ask for recent hours, not lifetime totals.
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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 tailwheel time tracker: a clean, single-purpose record of every qualifying flight with lifetime, 12-month and 90-day totals — the exact numbers insurance minimums that commonly want 10–25 tailwheel hours and recent-90-day tailwheel landings and similar gates ask for.
About Tailwheel Time Tracker
Ask what gates insurance minimums that commonly want 10–25 tailwheel hours and recent-90-day tailwheel landings — and the answer is never 'total time'; it's tailwheel time specifically. Yet tailwheel insurability decays fast — underwriters ask for recent hours, not lifetime totals, which is why this number is so painful to extract from a mixed logbook on demand. Run it as its own ledger instead: qualifying flights only, each carrying the context that makes it count, with lifetime and rolling 12-month/90-day sums maintained automatically. The figure employers and underwriters want becomes a tile you read, not a weekend you spend.
How to use Tailwheel Time Tracker
- 1Log each qualifying flight with its tailwheel time and the context that qualifies it.
- 2Read totals off the tiles: lifetime, 12-month and 90-day.
- 3Export the CSV when applications, insurers or interviews want evidence.
Why use Tailwheel Time Tracker?
- ✓Single-purpose record: only tailwheel time, never diluted
- ✓Lifetime + rolling 12-month + rolling 90-day totals, always current
- ✓Qualifying-context field keeps every entry defensible under audit
- ✓Feeds the real gates: insurance minimums that commonly want 10–25 tailwheel hours and recent-90-day tailwheel landings
- ✓Browser-private with one-click CSV export
Frequently asked questions
What counts as tailwheel time?+
Time in an aeroplane with conventional (tailwheel) gear — but the operative numbers are recent ones: underwriters quoting a Cub or 185 ask for tailwheel hours in the last 90 days or 12 months far more often than lifetime totals, because directional-control proficiency decays measurably with layoff. The rolling tiles in this tracker exist precisely because tailwheel competence is a recency story.
Doesn't my electronic logbook already total this column?+
Most can filter for it, but the result is only as good as years of tagging discipline — and tailwheel insurability decays fast — underwriters ask for recent hours, not lifetime totals. A dedicated ledger flips the burden: entry here means qualifying, with the justification recorded alongside. It's a verification layer as much as a convenience: when this total and your logbook filter agree, you quote the number with confidence.
Why show 90-day and 12-month windows beside the lifetime total?+
Because the follow-up question to any lifetime total is always 'and recently?' Insurance renewals quote on 12-month tailwheel activity, checkout policies on 90-day recency, and interviewers read recent columns as current competence. The tiles recompute both windows on every page load, so the recency answer is as current as the lifetime one.
Where is my logbook data stored?+
Everything you enter is saved in your browser's local storage on your own device — nothing is uploaded to any server. That means your flight records stay completely private, work offline, and load instantly. Use the CSV export regularly to keep an off-device backup copy of your records.
How do I back up or print these records?+
Use the Export CSV button below the table: it downloads your full tailwheel record as a spreadsheet-ready file. From there you can print a clean copy, archive it with your training folder, or import it into any electronic logbook program. Exporting monthly is a good habit since the working data lives only in your browser.
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