Introducing AIROS: a smarter way to manage your pilot logbook

Digital logbooks have been around for years. Platforms like LogTen and ForeFlight have helped thousands of pilots move away from paper records, organize flight time, and track their experience.

But digitizing a logbook doesn't necessarily make maintaining one any easier.

Many platforms still rely on spreadsheet-like interfaces or lengthy entry forms. Recording a single flight can mean navigating dozens of fields, manually entering information, and remembering which details matter for different types of flight experience.

AIROS approaches the problem differently, with two priorities that particularly stood out to us: regulatory compliance and effortless flight logging.

AIROS makes record review part of everyday logging. Its FAR 61.51 checks flag potential issues so you can review the details while the flight is still fresh.

That becomes more useful as the logbook grows. Flight times, aircraft identification, and experience categories can be difficult to check from memory years later. I'd rather review a questionable entry while the flight is still fresh than try to explain it during a checkride or airline interview.

QuickLogs covers that review when you're converting the paper history. AIROS gives you checks as you continue logging, so reviewing the record stays part of keeping it current.

What stood out to me most about AIROS was how it handles an individual flight. Instead of presenting every field at once, it breaks the entry into focused screens. Aircraft details can be filled from a registration or flight number, and the time calculator handles calculations you'd otherwise do yourself. You still check the entry, but there's less to type.

The graphic below shows what that looks like. The middle screen has aircraft details filled from a flight number. On either side, you can see the time calculator and flight-time entry. It gives you a clearer sense of the process than a list of features: identify the aircraft, work through the times, and check the details as you go.

For someone coming from paper, that matters beyond the first import. QuickLogs gets the old flights into a format you can use. AIROS gives you a way to keep adding new ones without returning to the same manual work.

QuickLogs handles the work that comes before a digital logbook can be useful: reading paper pages and turning them into individual flight records. You review those records against the source, correct anything that needs attention, and export the flights when they're ready. AIROS picks up from there, giving you a place to keep that history and log new flights.

For pilots making that move, the partnership includes 3 months free, then $25 off your first year of AIROS. Available to pilots who purchase a QuickLogs page package. Find it under Settings → AIROS, or contact QuickLogs support for help accessing it before subscribing.

If you're starting with paper, our complete guide to digitizing a paper pilot logbook explains how to photograph your pages, review the extraction, and prepare your records for export. The same process applies whether you choose AIROS or another supported logbook.

1. 01

   Photograph pages

   Photograph your pages
   with your phone.

2. 02

   Review flights

   Review extracted flights
   against each page.

3. 03

   Export CSV

   Export reviewed flights
   as an AIROS CSV.

4. 04

   Import flights

   Import your CSV
   and continue in AIROS.

Whether you're a student pilot documenting your first solo flight, a flight instructor managing thousands of hours, or a professional pilot preparing for an airline interview, your logbook is one of your most important career records.

Getting those records into a digital format shouldn't require weeks of manual entry. And maintaining them shouldn't require navigating a complicated spreadsheet after every flight.

That's the shared vision behind QuickLogs and AIROS.

Accurate flight records. Simpler logging. More confidence in your logbook.