Greetings!

 

On my previous system I had a freeware tool (I think) that summarized all my flight activity: number of take-offs, number of landings, crashes, and if I remember correctly, was sortable by aircraft, airport, etc.

 

For the life of me, I cannot remember what it was! I did searches on the Forums for "flight log report", "takeoff landing log", etc, but nothing popped up that was obvious. The Google is also not being very helpful.

 

Does anybody else use this tool? Is it something in FSX that I left behind? (I fly P3D V1.4 now). I thought it may be Aircrafter, but that does not display log entries.

 

Thanks for hitting the reset button!

 

John

Sounds like you want a logbook reader of some sort, search "fsxlogbook" in the file libraries. Works for P3D2 also but you have to trick it into reading the P3D2 logbook. Not sure about P3D v1.4 but if it has a logbook.bin (I'm sure it does) you just need to find it and point the program to it.

Bingo! 

 

Since I use EMT it found logbook.bin immediately, no fuss no muss.

 

Thank you, Jim - exactly what I was forgetting/missing.

 

John

Glad I could help John :smile:

 

 

I use EMT

Where did you get that from? Any chance of the link? Thanks.

Where did you get that from? Any chance of the link? Thanks.

Hi Rick, 

 

It is the friendly Estonia Migration Tool, found @ http://www.flightsim.ee/products/migration-tool.

 

Others don't like it, others do migrations manually, I just like the set-and-forget nature - once it is established, *everything* goes into my P3D folder, no fuss, no muss.

One note, the fsxlogbook tool is designed to find logbook.bin in your Documents\Flight Simulator X Files folder which is put there by FSX. That folder & file is not removed when you uninstall FSX so I'm worried about whether the logbook tool has actually found your P3D v1.4 loogbook or if you're seeing an old FSX logbook from days gone by. I'm not familiar with the migrartion tool so I don't know if the junction link goes as far as linking program related files outside of the simulator installation or not. If it's so that you're seeing a past FSX logbook the trick is to rename it (logbook.bin.off) so the logbook utility can't find it, then it will pop up a dialog asking you to show it where it is. For P3D2 they've moved the logbook.bin out of the Documents folder and put it in the %appdata% folder alongside the Prepar3d.cfg, not sure if that's the case for P3D v1.4. If all else fails the registry entry where fsxlogbook stores the path to logbook.bin is at HKCU\Software\Vertigo\fsxlogbook\MAIN.

 

Jim

Heya Jim, 

 

Yeah, I had thought of that, too, but then realized that my FSX installation is "virgin" - it was just installed to provide any reference materials, back-ports (such as the Hornet with the Blue Angels mods), and the Learning Center (there is a LOT of useful information in there that does not exist in P3D). Not a single flight was, or will be, taken in the currently installed version of FSX.

 

So, fxslogbook found my logbook.bin, said I fly the Legacy the most (yup), and that I have more takeoffs than landings...    :lol:  Oddly enough, it starts with the default Mooney at KNGU, but dated 2011... Weird, since that was before I even started flying in FSX or otherwise, but then it jumps into the correct time frame when I cut over to P3D permanently. 

 

Great little tool, and it allows me to see what prior abuses I made my simulated aircraft take. If I wasn't happy in times past, I would just pull the rip cord and ESC out the flight. I rarely do that anymore. I used to start hot and on the runway - now I start cold and dark in a GA parking spot (thank you, Plan G!). Sometimes the 10 minutes before take-off are just as enjoyable as flying (sometimes!). The only fault I find with it is it has European date formats (DD/MM/YY), the singularly most useless date format to sort and read ever invented (IMHO, but then again I work with computers by profession and they much prefer YYYY/MM/DD).

 

I guess I can claim I am growing up as a flight simmer, and the logbook tool lets me track the changes. 

 

Thanks again for finding it!