Flight Simulator Logbook Editor (FS Logbook Editor) is a small program to edit - as the title implies, logbook files created by Microsoft® Flight Simulator X (mainly), Microsoft® Flight Simulator 2004, Lockheed Martin Prepar3D® and X-Plane 10/11/12®.
What logbook? What is the logbook, you ask? Well, for aviators, the amount of hours flown is important, as it is the main indicator of their experience. So every pilot keeps track of his/her hours in a "logbook", which is basically a paper or electronic list of all flights that aviator flew. For flight simmers, this logbook is created and written to automatically every time you run one of the simulators mentioned above. Information like departure airport, destination airport and of course flight times are automatically logged.
I can edit the records inside Flight Simulator more or less, why should I need FS Logbook Editor? You are right, you can edit the records right in the flight simulator, but doing so feels a little clumsy to me, not much "user friendly". It works fine to change one or two things from time to time, but it is not much "joy" for some more detailed logbook management. One example is, say you want to keep only "serious" flights you did inside the logbook. This would require you to go through all the records and delete all "test", "tweak", "whatever tuning" flight records. If I would have to do all of this in flight simulator interface, I would rather not do it at all. And FS Logbook Editor can do more than just those simple edits.
Features:
Supports Flight Simulator 2004, Flight Simulator X, Lockheed Martin Prepar3D® v1-v6 ,X-Plane 10, X-Plane 11 and X-Plane 12 logbook files.
Supports importing logbook data from Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. The Mouseviator Enhanced Logbook add-on package is required for this to work and is included with FS Logbook Editor. Implemented since FS Logbook Editor version 1.8.
Allows import of flight from FsHub.io. Implemented since FS Logbook Editor version 1.8
Allows all basic editing operations: add, edit, delete.
Join two or more records into one record.
Merge logbooks.
Append logbook to another logbook.
Calculate basic statistics.
Repair corrupted binary logbook files to some extent. (Flight Simulator X sometimes does not save logbook correctly and hangs due to this next time you start it. You can fix this with loading logbook into FS Logbook Editor and saving the logbook again without the need to delete the whole logbook)
Save logbook as Flight Simulator 2004 text formatted logbook (.log), Flight Simulator X binary logbook (.bin), Open-Document spreadsheet (.ods), Comma-Separated Values (.csv) file, X-Plane 10/11 text formatted logbook (.txt) ,FS Logbook Editor XML file (.fslex) and Keyhole markup language file (.kml) – to view in Google Earth, JSON file (since version 1.8), Excel spreadsheet (.xls and .xlsx – since version 1.8).
Export flights to Google Earth.
Define and calculate certain personal minimums.
Define pilot certifications and see which ones you are eligible for.
Compute pilot statistics (hours flown per aircraft, aircraft category or user aircraft category, takeoffs and landings per aircraft, aircraft category, user aircraft category, per airport, city, country and/or state, distance flown per aircraft, aircraft type or user aircraft category).
Customizable pilot statistics output via templates.
Multilingual support and easy to translate. (FS Logbook Editor supports Czech and English for now, but places no restrictions to be translated into another language).
Supports custom templates for saving logbook as Open-Document Spreadsheet (.ods).
Display airport data such as airport name, city, country and state. These data can be imported from Flight Simulator X, Prepar3D, X-Plane, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and from Navigraph database.
Display flight on map.
Generate pixel-perfect reports using JasperReports reporting engine.
Filter logbook records.
Supported languages: Czech, English (Documentation is ONLY in English for now)
Supported operating system: Microsoft® Windows 7 and above.MAC is not offically supported, even thought the software may work there.
Requirements
FSX, FS2004, Prepar3D v1-v6, X-Plane10, X-Plane 11, X-Plane 12, Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 (only import of the logbook data!!!)
FS Logbook Editor was written using Java and thus requires it to be installed on your system (min version 17 - this is new with version 1.85, was 16 with version 1.81, was 15 with version 1.70, 11 with version 1.65, and 8 before). But to make your life easy as possible, the required version of Java Run-time Environment is packed with FS Logbook Editor, so it will work even if you have no Java installed. If you have newer version of Java, FS Logbook Editor will use it. As for system specifications, there are no specific requirements other than minimum screen resolution of 1024x768. Any average computer of today should handle FS Logbook Editor well.
A must have application for those interested into MSFS Log Book analytics. It provides an one click and direct export of log book entries into the FS Logbook Editor. And once done offers a multitude of options to generate views, filters, reports and graphics.
Well worth the price and highly recommended.
I use this with X-Plane 11 and it really makes a big difference to logbook management. Being able to filter things like 0km distance flights and to sort the entries by just about anything is very helpful. Another thing I like is being able to view all your past flights on a street map or satellite map with just a single button click. I still haven't explored all the things this tool is able to do. Highly recommended! Thanks.