How to Print a ForeFlight Logbook for an Airline Interview
ForeFlight can turn your digital flight entries into a printable logbook, but preparing that logbook for an airline interview involves more than pressing Print.
The report must cover the correct date range, preserve the detail an interviewer may want to review, include the appropriate endorsements and certificates, and print in a format that is easy to navigate. Your totals should also agree with the flight time shown on your application—or you should understand and be prepared to explain any legitimate differences.
For most pilots, the best starting point is to generate the Complete Logbook report in ForeFlight Mobile, save it as a PDF, review the PDF carefully, and print it from a computer. The Condensed Logbook can work when a shorter format is preferred, but the Complete report generally provides the stronger starting point for an interview because it preserves more of the underlying entry detail.
The airline’s current instructions always come first. If your interview packet requests a particular report, date range, page format, set of supporting records, or method of presentation, follow those instructions instead of a general recommendation.
Can You Use a ForeFlight Logbook at an Airline Interview?
Yes. ForeFlight specifically describes its Logbook Detail Reports as printable formats suitable for personal backup or professional job interviews. These reports convert the flights in your ForeFlight account into traditional logbook-style pages and place certificates and endorsements in their own sections.
The FAA also does not require an ordinary pilot logbook to be maintained in a bound paper book. Under 14 CFR § 61.51, pilots must document required training and aeronautical experience in a manner acceptable to the Administrator and include the required information for each flight or lesson logged. The FAA has also published electronic-recordkeeping guidance that applies to records required by Part 61.
That does not mean every airline handles digital records identically. An airline may ask you to bring a printed digital logbook, original paper logbooks, electronic files, supporting military records, training records, or a combination of them. Treat the airline’s document checklist and recruiter instructions as controlling.
If you began with paper logbooks and later moved to ForeFlight, a printed ForeFlight report does not make the original books irrelevant. Bring the original records when requested, especially when they contain original instructor signatures, endorsements, checkrides, or detailed entries that were transferred into ForeFlight as summarized time.
Our guide to paper versus digital logbooks for airline interviews explains how the two formats can work together.
Complete or Condensed: Which ForeFlight Logbook Report Should You Print?
ForeFlight currently offers two logbook detail-report options:
Complete Logbook
The Complete Logbook is the better default for most airline interviews. It is designed to preserve more information from each entry and present the record across a more detailed layout. That gives a reviewer a clearer view of your flights, categories, remarks, and supporting information.
Choose the Complete report when:
The airline has not instructed you to use a shorter format.
You want the reviewer to see the most complete version of your ForeFlight record.
Your remarks, routes, aircraft information, crew information, or other entry details may be relevant.
You are building a permanent, professionally organized interview binder.
Condensed Logbook
The Condensed Logbook reduces the number of pages and places more information into a compact format. It may be appropriate when the airline specifically requests a condensed report or when you have previewed both formats and confirmed that the condensed version preserves everything needed for your interview.
Do not choose the Condensed report only because it is cheaper or faster to print. Saving pages is not helpful if the resulting logbook removes details you may need to explain.
ForeFlight’s current printing instructions confirm that both the Complete and Condensed reports include an endorsement section. Even so, preview the actual report before relying on it. Your report can only display the information that exists in your ForeFlight account.
The Experience Report Is Not a Replacement for the Logbook
ForeFlight’s Experience Report is useful for reviewing totals by aircraft, category, and type of flying. It can also help you compare your logbook totals with an airline application.
It is a summary, however—not a replacement for the entry-by-entry logbook report. You may include a useful summary near the front of an interview binder, but the Complete or Condensed Logbook should remain the main flight record unless the airline directs otherwise.
The CSV Export Is Not the Printable Interview Report
ForeFlight on the Web can export your logbook data as a CSV file. That file is valuable as a backup and for reviewing or transferring data, but it is not the polished report you should hand to an interviewer.
Use Reports to create your printable logbook. Use Export to preserve the underlying data.
Review Your ForeFlight Logbook Before Creating the PDF
Printing should be one of the final steps, not the first. A professional binder will not help if the underlying totals, aircraft profiles, or entries contain inconsistencies.
Before exporting the report, check the following:
All legitimate draft entries have been reviewed and approved.
The logbook contains the correct date range and all required historical entries.
Your name, certificates, ratings, and qualifications are current.
Aircraft profiles use accurate type codes, category and class information, engine types, and equipment classifications.
PIC, SIC, total time, cross-country, night, instrument, dual received, and other important categories are consistently recorded.
Simulator, FTD, and ATD time is clearly separated from aircraft flight time where the airline’s application requires that distinction.
Checkrides, flight reviews, IPCs, type ratings, and significant training events are identifiable.
Required instructor signatures and endorsements are present and legible.
Safety-pilot names and instrument-approach details are recorded when required.
There are no unintended duplicate entries, missing flights, unusual bulk entries, or unexplained jumps in totals.
Your all-time totals reconcile with your airline application after accounting for any application-specific definitions or rounding.
ForeFlight can calculate totals from the information entered, but it cannot determine whether every entry was classified correctly or whether a source record was transferred accurately. That is why the review needs to happen before the final report is printed.
For a deeper review, see the most common pilot logbook mistakes. PilotAudit’s Professional Pilot Logbook Audit can also review the records you provide and flag totals, entries, categories, aircraft details, and other items that may deserve attention before an application or interview.
How to Export and Print a ForeFlight Logbook From an iPad or iPhone
ForeFlight’s current support instructions provide the following path for creating and printing a logbook report in ForeFlight Mobile.
Step 1: Finish and synchronize your entries
Approve any legitimate drafts, make supported corrections, and allow your ForeFlight data to synchronize before generating the final report. Do not begin printing while you are still changing historical entries or reconciling totals.
As an additional safeguard, export a current CSV backup. ForeFlight also offers an automatic export option that can send PDF and/or CSV copies to the email address associated with the account.
Step 2: Open the Reports section
In ForeFlight Mobile:
Tap More.
Tap Logbook.
Tap Reports.
Step 3: Select the report
Choose Complete Logbook for the most detailed interview version, unless your airline requests the Condensed report or you have another specific reason to use it.
Step 4: Select the correct date range
For a complete career record, select All Time. If an airline specifically asks for a limited period, follow that instruction—but do not accidentally print only the last 90 days, 12 months, or another filtered range.
Step 5: Preview the report
Wait for the report to generate and inspect it on screen. Confirm that the first flight, most recent flight, totals, certificates, and endorsements appear where expected.
Step 6: Save a standalone PDF
Tap the Send To button, shown as a square with an upward arrow.
Depending on the apps configured on your device, you may be able to save or email the PDF directly. ForeFlight also documents the following method for creating a standalone PDF:
Tap Print from the Send To menu.
Confirm the page range in the Print Options window.
Use two fingers to expand one of the report thumbnails.
The report will open as a standalone PDF.
Tap the Send To button again.
Select Save to Files, email, AirDrop, or another appropriate destination.
Saving the PDF before printing gives you a fixed copy to inspect, transfer to a computer, provide to a print service, or retain as a dated backup.
Step 7: Name the file clearly
Use a filename that identifies the pilot, record, and cutoff date, such as:
FirstName-LastName-ForeFlight-Logbook-YYYY-MM-DD.pdf
A clear filename prevents an outdated report from being mistaken for the final interview version.
How to Print a ForeFlight Logbook From ForeFlight on the Web
ForeFlight’s support instructions also describe printing through ForeFlight on the Web:
Sign in to ForeFlight on the Web.
Select Logbook.
Select Reports.
Choose the available logbook report and correct time range.
Select Print.
ForeFlight’s current web-printing instructions specifically demonstrate the Condensed Logbook. If you want the Complete report and it is not available in your web view, generate it through ForeFlight Mobile and move the resulting PDF to your computer.
Do not confuse the Reports tab with the Export tab. The standard Export button downloads logbook data as a CSV file rather than creating the traditional printed logbook layout.
Inspect the PDF Before Printing the Entire Logbook
Open the saved PDF on a computer and review it from beginning to end. At minimum, verify:
Your name and identifying information are correct.
The report begins with the intended first entry.
The report ends with your most recent intended entry.
Dates run in the expected order without an unexplained gap.
Totals and carry-forward amounts remain consistent from page to page.
Columns, remarks, and aircraft identifiers are readable.
No information is cut off near the page edges.
Certificates and endorsements appear at the end of the report.
Digitally signed entries and endorsements display correctly.
Pages are in the proper order for double-sided printing.
Blank pages are intentional and do not separate facing pages incorrectly.
Then print a short test section before committing to the full job. A four- to six-page proof can reveal incorrect scaling, backwards duplex settings, clipped margins, faint text, or pages that turn upside down.
Recommended Print Settings for an Interview Binder
There is no single print specification used by every airline, but the finished record should be clean, durable, readable, and easy to turn through.
Print from the saved PDF
Printing from a computer usually provides better control over page size, duplexing, margins, and orientation than sending a large report directly to a printer from an iPad.
Preserve the original orientation
Allow the PDF to determine whether pages print in portrait or landscape. Do not manually rotate or stretch the report unless a test page shows that it is necessary.
Watch the scaling
Start with Actual Size or the PDF’s default sizing. Use Fit only if the printer clips information. Excessive shrinking may make already-dense logbook text difficult to read.
Test the duplex setting
If printing double-sided, choose the binding setting that keeps both sides upright as pages turn. Printer terminology varies, so test several pages before printing the complete report.
If your generated Complete report uses facing pages, confirm that the left and right sides remain paired correctly after duplex printing and binding.
Protect the binding margin
Do not allow three-hole punches, binding holes, rings, or staples to cover dates, totals, or remarks. If ForeFlight’s fixed margins place information too close to the binding edge, a professional printer can add a safe binding margin without distorting the page.
Use clean, opaque paper
Bright white, good-quality paper improves contrast and reduces show-through from the reverse side. Extremely heavy paper can make a large logbook binder unnecessarily bulky, while very thin paper may feel flimsy and allow text to show through.
Keep the presentation simple
The logbook should look professional, not decorative. Avoid oversized logos, elaborate graphics, colored dividers that obscure information, or anything that makes the binder harder to review.
How to Organize the Finished ForeFlight Interview Logbook
The exact contents should follow your airline’s instructions, but a useful interview binder may include:
A simple cover page with your name.
A concise tab index or table of contents.
A clearly labeled flight-time summary when requested or useful.
The complete ForeFlight logbook report.
Certificates, ratings, and endorsements included in the report.
Any separately requested supporting records.
Use tabs selectively. Checkrides, ratings, training events, turbine milestones, and other important entries can be useful to mark, but covering the binder with dozens of tabs makes navigation harder rather than easier.
Read what to tab in a pilot logbook for an airline interview before installing the final tabs. The airline’s instructions should determine which events receive priority.
Keep original paper logbooks and other source records separate and protected unless the airline directs you to combine them. A clean ForeFlight binder is meant to make the digital record easy to review; it should not conceal where the underlying flight history came from.
Should You Sign Printed ForeFlight Logbook Pages?
Follow the airline’s written instructions. Some interview processes may ask for signatures or initials on printed pages, while others may not.
FAA regulations do require authorized-instructor information and signatures for certain training records. Under § 61.51(h), logged training must include a description of the training, the lesson length, and the instructor’s signature and certificate information. That is different from saying that every page of a printed digital logbook must automatically receive the pilot’s handwritten signature.
Make sure required digital instructor signatures and endorsements appear correctly in the report. If the airline asks you to sign or initial printed pages, do so after the final copy is printed and reviewed.
When Should You Print the Final Copy?
Print after your logbook has been reviewed and your application totals have been reconciled, but close enough to the interview that the record is reasonably current.
If you continue flying after printing, maintain a clear cutoff date. Depending on the airline’s instructions and the number of new entries, you may need to regenerate the report, replace the affected section, or add a clearly labeled update. Avoid creating a confusing mixture of handwritten totals, loose pages, and multiple overlapping exports.
Before making the final copy, review our complete guide to preparing a pilot logbook for an airline interview.
Common ForeFlight Printing Mistakes
Avoid these preventable problems:
Printing the CSV export instead of a Logbook Detail Report.
Printing the Experience Report as the only flight record.
Accidentally using a limited date filter instead of All Time.
Choosing the Condensed report without checking which details it removes or compresses.
Printing before reconciling totals with the airline application.
Assuming ForeFlight’s calculations prove every entry was categorized correctly.
Leaving draft flights unapproved.
Failing to review aircraft category, class, type, and equipment information.
Omitting endorsements or certificate pages from the print range.
Punching holes through columns or remarks.
Printing the entire report without testing duplex orientation first.
Leaving no way to find checkrides, ratings, or requested milestones quickly.
Waiting until the night before the interview to generate the final PDF.
Let PilotAudit Prepare the ForeFlight Logbook for You
Generating the PDF is the easy part. The more important work is reviewing the entries, reconciling totals, organizing the record, protecting the page layout, and building a binder that is easy for an interviewer to navigate.
PilotAudit’s Pilot Interview Logbook Prep Package combines a professional review of the records you provide with a clean, printed, custom-tabbed interview binder. We flag totals, categories, aircraft information, missing or unusual entries, and other items that may deserve your attention before formatting and printing the final record.
If your ForeFlight logbook has already been reviewed and is ready to print, the Professionally Printed Interview Logbook provides the physical binder and professional presentation without adding a separate audit.
The goal is simple: make your ForeFlight record accurate, organized, current, and easy to review before you hand it across the table.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I bring only my ForeFlight logbook to an airline interview?
That depends on the airline’s instructions and how your records were created. If you have original paper logbooks, military records, training documents, or other source records, bring them when requested. A printed ForeFlight report may be the cleanest review copy, but it does not automatically replace every original document.
Should I print the Complete or Condensed ForeFlight Logbook?
The Complete Logbook is the stronger default for most interviews because it provides a more detailed record. Use the Condensed version when the airline requests it or after confirming that it retains all information needed for the review.
Can I print a ForeFlight logbook directly from an iPad?
Yes. In ForeFlight Mobile, go to More > Logbook > Reports, select the report, tap the Send To button, and choose Print. Saving the report as a PDF and printing from a computer generally gives you more control over orientation, duplexing, scaling, and margins.
Do ForeFlight endorsements print with the logbook?
ForeFlight states that both the Complete and Condensed Logbook reports include an endorsement section. Verify the final PDF before printing to ensure your expected endorsements and signatures appear correctly.
Does a printed ForeFlight logbook need to be signed?
There is no universal answer for every airline interview. Follow the airline’s document instructions. Required instructor signatures and endorsement information must remain present, but that does not automatically mean every printed page requires the pilot’s wet signature.
What if I add flights after printing my interview logbook?
Keep a clear cutoff date and follow the airline’s instructions. If the report is materially outdated, regenerate it or replace the affected pages rather than creating an unclear collection of handwritten updates and overlapping exports.
Should my ForeFlight totals match my airline application exactly?
They should reconcile after accounting for the airline’s definitions, excluded categories, and any required rounding. Investigate differences before the interview and be prepared to explain legitimate ones clearly. Do not alter accurate logbook data simply to force a match with an incorrectly completed application.
Sources
ForeFlight is a third-party product. PilotAudit is not affiliated with or endorsed by ForeFlight, Jeppesen, Boeing, or any airline. Airline document requirements can change. Pilots remain responsible for confirming current instructions and verifying the accuracy, completeness, legality, and use of their records.
