Import your logbook

From ForeFlight

1. Sign in to ForeFlight on the web from a computer.
2. Open Logbook, then Export, and download the CSV file. Or, under the Logbook’s Settings, turn on Export to Email, choose CSV and press Export Now to have the file emailed to you. Both are described in ForeFlight’s help.
3. Upload it unchanged on the Import page. The file starts with a table of your aircraft before the flights, and we use it to fill in each aircraft’s type.

From an Excel spreadsheet

• Upload the .xlsx or .xls file itself. One flight to a row works best, with the column headings at the top.
• Headings can sit over two rows, such as “Departure” over “Place”. We join them up.
• If the workbook has several sheets, we read the biggest one and tell you which. If that’s the wrong one, save the right sheet on its own and upload that.
• Dates stored as real Excel dates are read exactly. Dates typed as text are worked out from the file itself: we look at all of them to tell day-first from month-first. A row the file doesn’t settle goes to Review rather than being read one way on a guess.

What we read

• The date of each flight.
• The aircraft registration, kept exactly as you wrote it.
• The departure and arrival airports, as ICAO or IATA codes.
• Off-block and on-block times, where your logbook has them.
• The aircraft type and the flight number, where present.

The registration, airports and date are what we need to search for photos. Times are optional, but they help: they let us pick out your flight among the others the aircraft flew that day.

What we leave out

• Names of people you flew with. Never imported.
• Simulator sessions. Recognised from your logbook’s own simulator column and held back, because they are not flights. The preview lists them, and you can tick any you want anyway.
• Flights that haven’t happened yet, and rows with no aircraft recorded. Also held back and listed, so you can choose.

Rows we can’t read

We never guess. A row we can’t read confidently goes to Review with a plain reason, such as an airport code that isn’t a real airport. You can correct it there, and if the same wrong code appears on many rows, one correction fixes all of them.

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