Logging flights and keeping your hours current

Hour-based maintenance countdowns are only as accurate as the hours behind them. Each flight you log records the change in your tach reading, and that tach delta is what keeps every hour-based maintenance item counting down against reality instead of a stale number. Here's how to keep your hours current.

Three ways to log a flight

1. 1

   Quick form

   Go to /dashboard/flight-log and enter the flight directly — the fastest path when you're logging one flight at a time. Enter the readings off the meters and save.
2. 2

   Single-document upload with AI prefill

   Upload a photo or PDF of a single record and TachMinder prefills the form from what it reads. You review the prefilled values against your document before saving — the AI drafts, you confirm.
3. 3

   Bulk upload with a review table

   Catching up on a stack of flights? Upload them in bulk and work through the review table, confirming or correcting each row before it lands in your record.

Advisory warnings — read them, don't fear them

When you save a flight, the server sanity-checks it and returns advisory warnings where something looks off — for example, a backdated tach reading or an unrealistic Hobbs jump. The app shows these warnings to you verbatim. They're advisory: they flag entries worth a second look (a typo, a transposed digit, a flight logged out of order) rather than blocking you. If the warning is right, fix the entry; if your numbers are genuinely correct, carry on.

Reviewing what you've logged

The Hours Tracking tab on the aircraft page is the read-only per-flight stream — every logged flight in order, with its readings. It's the place to scan for gaps or oddities, and the record you'll be glad exists when reconciling against a paper logbook.

Habits that keep hours trustworthy

• Log off the meters, not from memory. Read the tach and Hobbs before you walk away from the airplane.
• Log promptly. A flight logged the same day is a flight logged accurately.
• Take warnings seriously once. Thirty seconds checking a flagged entry beats discovering a bad reading three months later.