Why does my logbook for P3Dv4.5 and FSX-SE classify most of my aircraft as amphibious when they should be fixed wing?

For a better logbook search the Avsim library for Dan Downs Logbook, or logedit3_364661.zip

I have logedit3 that's how I discovered the amphibious classifications. I just used Logedit3 to edit and repair my logbook. Can I bypass the stock logbook and have P3D record flights to Logedit3? or some other logbook program?

1 hour ago, BigT65 said:

I have logedit3 that's how I discovered the amphibious classifications. I just used Logedit3 to edit and repair my logbook. Can I bypass the stock logbook and have P3D record flights to Logedit3? or some other logbook program?

Start using LogEdit instead of your flight sim logbook/pilot records.  Simple.  And yes, once you edit the information and save it that becomes the new version of the simulator's logbook.bin file.  Don't forget to review the user guide provided with LogEdit.

The aircraft category is an 8-bit byte at offset 0x002c in the flight record, and LogEdit has no control over how the simulator platform, or the aircraft developer, set that information.  I am aware that at least one popular developer seems to prefer the amphibian code (0x03) over the more common fixed wing (0x02) definition.  In P3D anyways, I think it is a moot point because the P3D Pilot Records user interface doesn't even display an aircraft category for each record, unlike FSX which did and this is how you found the odd classification.  I'm not going to be modifying the code that displays fixed wing for everyone but one developer that uses a different code, and it cannot be called an error because the SDK doesn't provide the details into the binary encoding for logbook.bin.