Account for Your Pre-Digital Flight Hours

Your logbook no longer starts at zero#

If you started using the digital logbook partway through a flying career, its total flight time only reflected the flights Quick Release had tracked — ignoring all the hours you’d already logged on paper. A pilot with years of experience could open their logbook and see “0h 0m”.

From now on, each logbook (balloon and pilot) can carry over its paper history, so the total reflects real experience — not just what Quick Release has recorded.

A start date and your paper totals#

Open the settings (the gear icon on any logbook) and you’ll find three values to set once:

• Start date — the day your digital logbook begins. Everything before it was kept on paper.
• 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.

These are entered once and can be adjusted at any time.

A clear total at the top#

Each logbook now shows two headline figures — total flights and total flight time — combining your paper history with everything logged in Quick Release since the start date. The same totals appear on the logbook’s title bar, so you can read them at a glance without even opening it.

Paper and digital, side by side#

The start date marks the boundary between the two eras:

• Flights before the start date belong to your paper logbook. Quick Release still shows any it happens to know about, but marks them with a small paper icon and greys them out — they’re for reference and are already counted in your paper totals.
• Flights from the start date onward are your digital logbook, counted automatically.

This keeps the total honest: your paper years are counted once (through the totals you entered), and your digital flights are counted once (from the system) — never both.

Included in exports#

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

💡 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. From there, Quick Release keeps the running total for you.