Quicklogs × LogTen Pro
Convert your paper pilot logbook to LogTen Pro—without retyping every flight
Photograph or scan your paper pages, review each extracted flight beside the original, then send approved aircraft and records directly to LogTen on the same device. Keep your signed paper originals.
By Dylan, Founder of Quicklogs · Updated September 1, 2026
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The short answer
A paper page has to become structured flight data before LogTen can use it.
Quicklogs handles that conversion. Upload a phone photo or scan, compare the extracted rows with the page image, correct anything uncertain, and verify the flights you trust. Quicklogs then sends the aircraft first and the approved flights second through LogTen's import handoff. You confirm the result inside LogTen.
The important distinction is that this creates searchable flight records, not just a digital picture of the book. LogTen can total, filter, analyze, and report on structured entries. The photographed pages remain your source for checking the conversion, and the original books remain part of your permanent record.
Why make the move
Use the paper book as the source and LogTen as the working view.
A digital logbook is most useful when it makes the history easier to understand without pretending the signed originals no longer matter.
- Search and filter years of flight history without working backward through paper pages
- Recalculate totals by aircraft, category, role, and experience type
- Track currency, duty, rest, and career minimums as new flights are added
- Generate clear reports for applications, interviews, insurance, and personal review
- Sync and back up the working logbook across supported Apple devices
- Keep the original signed paper books as the source record behind the digital history
LogTen publishes the authoritative list of its current reports, analytics, tracking, device support, and backup features on its feature overview. Check the current product details before choosing it as your long-term logbook.
Choose a method
There are four practical ways to move a paper logbook into LogTen.
The right choice depends on whether speed, flight-level detail, cost, or hands-on control matters most to you.
| Method | Pilot effort | Keeps each flight | Main tradeoff |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual entry | High | Yes | Full control, but every row must be retyped. |
| Balance forward | Low | No | Fast, but most flight-level history is lost. |
| Spreadsheet or data service | Medium | Usually | Reduces typing, but adds file formatting and import mapping. |
| Quicklogs | Review-focused | Yes | Extracts the rows for you; pilot review is still required. |
A balance forward can establish starting totals quickly, but it cannot answer the same questions as a line-by-line history. If you expect to need aircraft-specific time, routes, approaches, remarks, or application detail, preserve the individual flights.
Preserve the source
Keep the signed paper books after the conversion.
A searchable copy of an endorsement is useful, but it does not replace the entry your instructor signed. Keep the original pages, store them securely, and bring them when an examiner, employer, or other reviewer asks for the source record.
For U.S. pilots, 14 CFR §61.51 describes the aeronautical experience and training records a pilot must document. Quicklogs can help identify incomplete fields during conversion, but the pilot remains responsible for the record and for deciding whether the digital result matches the paper source.
The Quicklogs path
From photographed page to confirmed LogTen records
The work shifts from typing the book to reviewing the conversion.
Official partnership
- Capture the paper pages. Use your phone or upload scans you already have. Keep pages in order and retain every original book.
- Review the extracted flights. Compare each row with the page image and resolve uncertain handwriting, aircraft, times, landings, approaches, remarks, and validation flags.
- Send aircraft first. Open the direct LogTen handoff and confirm the aircraft, so the records referenced by your flights exist before those flights arrive.
- Send and confirm flights. Inspect the approved flights in LogTen and accept the import there. The final decision stays with you.
What moves
Preserve the details that make the digital logbook useful.
A line-by-line conversion supports much more than a single total-time number.
- Flight dates and aircraft identification
- Departure, destination, and route
- Total, PIC, SIC, solo, and dual time
- Day, night, cross-country, and instrument time
- Day and night takeoffs and landings
- Approaches, holds, remarks, and instructor details
- Aircraft make, model, category, class, and equipment information
- Custom fields that matter to your reports and career records
Verify before scaling
Test a few known pages before moving the entire history.
A small test makes field-mapping or total differences easier to find before they affect years of entries.
- Back up any flights already stored in LogTen.
- Choose three representative paper pages, including a page with handwriting or fields you consider difficult.
- Review every extracted row against the page image and resolve active flags.
- Send the aircraft and flights to LogTen, then inspect the result inside LogTen—not only in the handoff preview.
- Compare dates, aircraft, time categories, landings, approaches, remarks, and page totals with the paper source.
- Continue in bounded batches only after the test agrees with the original record.
Keep it current
Move the backlog once, then send only what is new or changed.
Quicklogs tracks verified flights it has handed off so later transfers can focus on the records that need attention.
The preview separates records that need to be created, updated, removed, or left unchanged. Quicklogs does not read your LogTen database, so it cannot detect a flight deleted inside LogTen. A deliberate resend control covers that recovery case.
Complete the handoff on the device where you use LogTen. On an iPhone or iPad, sign in to Quicklogs in the browser, send the aircraft, return for the flights, and confirm the import in LogTen. No spreadsheet formatting or separate file transfer is required.
Partner benefits
Quicklogs pilots new to LogTen receive the current partner offer.
- 3 months free LogTen Pro for Quicklogs pilots
- 23% off LogTen Pro after the trial, or 12% off Basic
- 120+ built-in reports including IACRA 8710 and currency
- Syncs across iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac
The extended trial and discount are for eligible pilots who are new to LogTen and purchase a Quicklogs page package. Existing LogTen subscribers can still use the conversion and handoff workflow, but they are not eligible for the new-user offer.
Review the official Quicklogs partner page on LogTen for the current offer, then find the redemption steps in Quicklogs Settings after purchase.
Still comparing destinations? Review the paper-to-ForeFlight workflow or start with the broader guide to digitizing a pilot logbook.
Questions
Paper logbook to LogTen Pro FAQ
- Can I convert a handwritten pilot logbook to LogTen Pro?
- Yes. Quicklogs turns photographs or scans of handwritten logbook pages into structured draft records. You compare each extracted flight with the source page, correct anything uncertain, and approve only the records you want to send to LogTen.
- Can LogTen import photographs or PDFs of paper pages directly?
- A photograph or PDF preserves the page image, but it is not a structured flight record that LogTen can total, filter, or report on. Quicklogs performs the paper-to-structured-data step and then hands the approved aircraft and flights to LogTen.
- Do I need to keep my paper logbook after moving to LogTen?
- Yes. Keep every original paper logbook, especially pages containing instructor signatures and endorsements. The digital record improves search, totals, backups, and reporting; it does not make the signed source record disposable.
- What happens to endorsements and instructor signatures?
- Quicklogs can preserve endorsement text as a searchable digital reference, but that reference does not replace the endorsement your instructor signed in the paper book. Retain the physically signed original and follow the current recordkeeping guidance that applies to you.
- Should I transfer every flight or use a balance-forward entry?
- A balance forward is faster, but it gives up much of the aircraft, route, experience, approach, remark, and application detail contained in individual flights. Transfer flights line by line when you expect to need detailed totals, reports, or career records; use a balance forward only after deciding that the lost detail is acceptable.
- Do I need a Mac to send Quicklogs records to LogTen?
- No. The direct handoff can be completed from an iPhone or iPad when Quicklogs and LogTen are available on that same device. Sign in to Quicklogs on the device where you use LogTen, then review and confirm the import inside LogTen.
- Is Quicklogs an official LogTen partner?
- Yes. Quicklogs is an official LogTen partner. Pilots new to LogTen can receive the currently advertised extended trial and subscription discount after purchasing a Quicklogs page package.
- Does Quicklogs have access to my LogTen account?
- No. Quicklogs prepares aircraft and flight records and opens LogTen's import handoff. You inspect and confirm the import in LogTen; Quicklogs cannot read or modify data already stored in your LogTen account.
- Will Quicklogs resend my entire logbook every time?
- Normally, Quicklogs tracks which verified records it has already handed off and prepares only new or modified flights. A separate resend option covers recovery cases, such as a record removed inside LogTen that Quicklogs cannot detect from outside your account.
Test the paper-to-LogTen workflow on three real pages.
Review your own handwriting and flight records before deciding how much of the backlog to convert.
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