Guide for aircraft owners
Logbook hours for your aircraft insurance renewal
Every renewal asks for your experience. Here is what insurers usually want to see and how to pull it from a paper logbook without adding columns all evening.
What renewal forms usually ask for
- Total time and pilot-in-command time
- Time in the make and model you are insuring
- Retractable, complex, high-performance, tailwheel or multi-engine time, where it applies
- Hours in the last 12 months and the last 90 days
- Your certificate and ratings, your last flight review and any recent training
Each insurer's form is a little different. When it is not clear how to count something, ask your agent.
How to total it from a paper logbook
- Start from the last page where you know the totals are right, and work forward.
- Make-and-model time is rarely its own column. Add up the flights in each tail number of that model.
- For the last 12 months and 90 days, count back from the date on the form, not from the end of a page.
- Write each number on our free insurance renewal hours sheet so you have it for next year.
Common mix-ups
- Counting a similar model as the same make and model. Many forms want only the exact model.
- Using page totals that were never checked. One wrong page total changes every number after it.
- Leaving out recent flights that are not on a full page yet.
Make next year take minutes
Once your logbook is in an app like ForeFlight, LogTen or MyFlightbook, the app can total these times for you. Keep your paper logbooks as the original record.
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