As a human being, you have no doubt evolved your own individual habits when it comes to organizing your inflight record-keeping chores. Whether you own your own airplane or rent, you probably keep your pen in the same place every flight, consult your checklists at the same time and any number of other procedures that remain relatively consistent with every trip aloft. Here’s where you can use your home computer’s spreadsheet or word processing program to develop a one-page flight log that combines most of what you need to keep yourself organized.
I keep a supply of several of these forms on a clipboard. The top of my personal form consists of a line with some of the radio frequencies pertinent to my home airport, especially the frequency for activating the runway lights. It’s not often that I need that frequency, but when I do, it’s good to have it handy. I also have the phone number for activating my IFR flight plan since, without a control tower or remote frequency, I must use my cell phone to contact ATC from the run-up pad.
