This is the Login Block, which you'll find at the top of the HOME page. After you Register (which is quick, painless, and darn-near instantaneous, you put your User ID and Password here and click Log In!

After successfully logging in, you'll see the Main User Menu:

... from which you can start working in your log book! 

Let's start with ADDING A FLIGHT.

You can put a LOT more information here than you can in a paper logbook! The Aircraft Types are completely user defined, the remarks section is huge (if it fills up, you get scroll bars.) You can record CFI information if it's a training flight. Did you make your flight in a Helicopter? No problem; the total time block is changeable to include ASEL, AMEL, ASES, AMES, Helicopter, Glider, PCATD & FTD, as well as 3 user-definable selections!

So, you actually want to READ your logbook? OK, you start with a QUERY from the main menu.

The Query Block looks like this:

Here I am querying any departure, arrival, or stopover at ADM (Ardmore) that was FILED IFR, where I was the Pilot in Command. I want to view totals INCLUDING ASEL (Airplane Single Engine Land.) The result gives me:

(It's cropped to keep the screen from getting too big, there's lots more info that you'll see when YOU do it...)

As you can see, I've only flown to Ardmore once under IFR, it was done mostly at night, and was Simulated Instrument Training in an ASEL.

From here, you can EDIT or DELETE records at your pleasure. The edit screen looks EXACTLY like the Add a Flight screen, so it's easy to use!

Note: The Green Rule bar (shown across the entry) is a function only visible if you use a compliant browser like Mozilla Firefox.

Oh! I almost forgot about doing Currency Queries!

If you check that box when you submit a query, you'll see additional info:

E-Logbook goes through all of your records and tells you the dates when your currency MIGHT expire. Day Currency is usually accurate.

NIGHT Currency may be a bit optimistic if you logged NON-FULL-STOP Night Landings as Night Landings.

INSTRUMENT Currency may be optimistic if you had no holding or Course Interception and Tracking maneuvers in the last six months. E-Logbook doesn't track that level of detail, so it's only looking for making six instrument approaches in either actual or simulated instrument conditions.

If you're working on a new rating, the FAA is going to make you fill out a form 8710-1, which has lots of blanks for time of experience, such as "Cross Country as Pilot In Command." E-Logbook can help you fill that out.

Your Paper Logbook, which just has totals of columns, would give you something similar to this:

Note how it gives you PIC Total time of 123.0 hours and 56.7 hours of X Ctry time. The Cross Country total includes flights where you WEREN'T PIC, and the PIC time includes flights that weren't Cross Country! Well, that's great, but it ISN'T telling you how many hours were flown where you were BOTH PIC and Cross Country!

So, if you craft your query like this:

(This is asking to show you ALL FLIGHTS made with both PIC time AND CROSS-COUNTRY in the same flight)

You will get this:

Voila!  51.0 hours of PIC Cross Country!

Similar Crafty Queries can be used to fill in ALL the blanks. NOTE:  This does NOT work accurately if you make a habit of entering SOLO and NON-SOLO, or PIC and NON-PIC, or X-CTRY and Non X-CTRY flights in the same line. E-Logbook will LET you do that, but it's not a good practice...

BUT WAIT!  THERE'S MORE!

If THAT wasn't fast enough for you, THERE'S A NEW FEATURE called the 8710 Assistant! When you click that, you'll see:

(Again, it's a bit cropped; the table is shown in full inside.)

Check it out!  This thing DOES THE MATH FOR YOU! (with some limitations.)