Start date & pre-digital hours

Many operators start using the digital logbook partway through a flying career, with years of flights already recorded on paper. The start date marks the day your digital logbook begins, and keeps the two eras cleanly separated so the totals stay accurate.

Feature location#

Open the settings with the gear icon on any logbook:

Set three values once (you can adjust them later):

• Start date — the day your digital logbook begins.
• Flights before the logbook — the number of flights from your paper logbook.
• Hours before the logbook — the flight time from your paper logbook, in hours and minutes.

How the start date is used#

• Flights before the start date belong to your paper logbook. You enter their totals once (the flights and hours above), and they’re counted as your prior total.
• Flights from the start date onward are your digital logbook, counted automatically from Quick Release.

This keeps every total honest — your paper years are counted once, and your digital flights are counted once, never both.

💡 Tip: set the start date to the day you switched to the digital logbook, then enter the flights and hours your paper logbook showed on that day.

Older digital flights#

Quick Release may already hold digital flights from before your start date. Those stay visible in the log list for reference, but are greyed out and marked with a small paper icon — a reminder that they belong to the paper era and are already counted in your prior totals, so they’re not counted again.

In the log list:

• Normal rows are digital-era flights, counted in the logbook.
• Greyed rows with a paper icon are pre-start-date flights, kept for reference only.

In the export#

The PDF and CSV export opens with a short summary line — pre-digital, logged, and total flight time — so an exported logbook always reflects the complete picture.