Flight Logging

Log flights with tach or Hobbs times, airports, landings, and currency events.

Overview

The Flights screen is where you record every flight. Each entry captures tach or Hobbs times, airports, landings, route, squawks, and currency events — everything needed to keep accurate records and track pilot currency automatically.

Tap any flight to expand and see the full details, or to edit or delete it.

Logging a Flight

To log a new flight:

1. Tap Log Flight on the home screen, or tap + Log Flight on the Flights screen
2. Fill in the Date (defaults to today) and Pilot (defaults to you)
3. Enter the Route using the airport search. Enter an ICAO identifier or airport name.
   • Your home airport pre-populates in the first slot but can be removed
   • Additional airports can be added in sequence for multi-leg flights
   • Tap Return to [home airport] to quickly add your home airport as the final leg
   • Approximate distance and estimated time are shown based on aircraft cruise speed

Aircraft Time Tracking

5-by-5 supports both tach time and Hobbs time for logging flight duration. You configure which one to use in Settings > Aircraft. Whichever you choose, the log form shows the appropriate fields labeled accordingly.

On paid plans, 5-by-5 manages your tach/Hobbs timeline automatically:

• Normal flight — tach-out (or Hobbs-out) pre-fills from the previous flight’s tach-in. You only need to enter the new tach-in.
• Inserting a flight between existing flights — a warning is shown that you’re inserting into the existing timeline. You enter the tach-in normally; when you save, the app asks whether you want to shift earlier flights back or later flights forward to maintain continuity.
• Adding historical data before your starting tach — you enter the flight duration directly (in hours) and the app calculates the tach values automatically.

On the free plan, you enter both tach-out and tach-in manually for every flight.

Oil, Fuel, and Fuel Cost

Each flight log includes optional fields for:

• Oil Added — quarts of oil added during or after the flight. Visible in the flight detail and useful for tracking consumption trends over time.
• Fuel Added — gallons of fuel added. Logged for reference and expense tracking.
• Fuel Cost (per gallon) — the price paid per gallon. Combined with fuel added, this feeds into cost tracking on the web dashboard.

Landing & Currency Tracking

For each flight you can record:

• Day landings — count toward 90-day passenger-carrying currency
• Night landings — count toward night passenger-carrying currency (and also toward day currency)
• Instrument Approaches — count toward IFR currency
• Instrument Holds — count toward IFR currency

These update your currency status automatically.

See Pilot Currency for full details.

Squawks from Flights

If you notice a discrepancy during a flight, you can report it directly from the flight log:

1. Scroll to the Squawks section on the flight form
2. Tap Add Squawk
3. Select severity: Minor, Monitor, or Grounding
4. Describe the issue
5. Optionally attach a photo (paid tiers)

Grounding squawks immediately appear as a red alert on every group member’s home screen.

See Squawk Reporting for details.

Comments

Free-text field for any notes about the flight you want to keep in the record.

Maintenance / Group Expense

Some flights are a shared group cost rather than one pilot’s personal charge — for example, flying to a maintenance facility or a post-annual check flight. Checking Maintenance / Group Expense (Club plans):

• The pilot still receives credit for flights, hours, and currency events
• The flight does not count toward that pilot’s estimated monthly bill