Off Chocks for FAA pilots: your 61.51 logbook, 61.57 currency and 8710-1 totals
Pick FAA as your authority and Off Chocks records what 14 CFR 61.51 asks for, counts your 61.57 currency from the flights you log, and prints the totals you copy into IACRA. It runs on iPad, iPhone and the web, and your first 50 logged hours are free.
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What 14 CFR 61.51 asks you to log
61.51 asks you to log the flights you use for a certificate, rating, flight review or recent experience. For each one: the date, total time, departure and arrival, aircraft type and identification, your role (solo, PIC, SIC or instruction received) and the conditions (day or night, actual or simulated instrument). Part 61 needs no FAA approval for an electronic logbook.
In Off Chocks you type Out, Off, On and In, and the form works out block time and the night split by civil twilight from the two airports. The seat picker holds PIC, SIC, Relief (not SIC), PIC Under Supervision (not SIC) and Dual Received, with Solo, actual and simulated instrument time, approaches and crew names on the same form.
61.57 currency, worked out from your flights
The Currency page counts 61.57(a) takeoffs and landings by category, class and type, with full-stop landings for tailwheel airplanes. Night currency uses the 61.57(b) window, an hour after sunset to an hour before sunrise at each flight's airports, while your logged night still follows civil twilight.
IFR currency counts six approaches, holding and course tracking by calendar month, shows the six-month grace period once you lapse, and then switches to needs IPC. Your flight review and medical are dates you enter in Credentials, and the app reminds you before each one runs out.
Hours toward your next certificate
The Licence progression card tracks the private, commercial and ATP certificates and the instrument rating against your logbook, and Goals has templates for the sport and recreational certificates and the multiengine rating. Device credit stops where the rules stop it: 50 hours toward the commercial 250, 100 toward the ATP 1,500, 20 toward the instrument rating and 25 toward the ATP's 75 hours of instrument time.
For the ATP the bars cover 1,500 total, 500 cross-country, 100 night, 75 instrument and 250 PIC with its 100 cross-country and 25 night. The PIC bars count PIC entries, so add any SIC time you logged performing PIC duties yourself. The ATP goal in Goals lists the 50 hours of multiengine time as a checklist item, and the app does not apply the 61.159(b) night landing credit or the reduced R-ATP minimums.
A printed logbook and your 8710-1 totals
Off Chocks prints an FAA logbook PDF with totals forwarded and totals to date on every page, and a certification block with name, signature and date lines.
Before a checkride it prints an 8710-1 Section III summary and an IACRA summary for the dates you choose, with FFS, FTD and ATD time on their own rows. A box the app holds no data for prints blank with a footnote, never as 0. You type the figures into IACRA yourself.
Bringing your logbook across
LogTen Pro Import reads LogTen's Export Flights (Tab) file, and ForeFlight Import reads a ForeFlight CSV. Files from other apps or a spreadsheet go through the CSV import, where you match each column once and can save the mapping. Dates default to MM/DD for FAA pilots, and you check every flight at Confirm before anything is saved.
If your early hours sit in a paper logbook, enter the totals per aircraft type as a balance forward. They count toward your totals and print on page one. They don't count toward currency, because they hold no dated flights.
What Off Chocks doesn’t do
- Capture instructor signatures or endorsements. Keep signed training records on paper or in your instructor's system.
- Work out your flight review or medical expiry. You enter the date and get the reminder.
- Track Part 117 or Part 135 duty and rest limits.
- Submit anything to the FAA or to IACRA.
Common questions
- Is an app logbook legal for FAA pilots?
- Yes. Part 61 sets no approval process for an electronic logbook (AC 120-78B, 1.9.5). Training entries still need your instructor's signature, and Off Chocks does not capture signatures, so keep those records signed on paper or in your instructor's system.
- Does Off Chocks fill in the 8710-1?
- It prints the Section III totals and an IACRA summary from your logbook for the dates you pick. You copy the figures into the form or into IACRA.
- Does night currency count differently from night time?
- Yes, as 61.57(b) does. Logged night follows civil twilight. Night currency counts takeoffs and full-stop landings from an hour after sunset to an hour before sunrise at each airport.
A plain-words summary to help you keep your own records, not legal advice. The regulation and your operator’s procedures take precedence. Switching apps? Off Chocks compared with LogTen Pro.
Try it on your own logbook
Choose FAA as your authority when you set up the app, or later in Settings. Free for your first 50 logged hours.
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Every FAA guide
- FAA pilot currency: the 14 CFR 61.57 rules in plain words
- When can you log PIC time? FAA 14 CFR 61.51(e) explained
- When can you log SIC time? FAA 14 CFR 61.51(f) and 61.55
- FAA cross-country time: what counts under 14 CFR 61.1
- Logging instrument time and approaches under FAA rules
- What must go in an FAA pilot logbook: 14 CFR 61.51
- FAA flight review (BFR) under 14 CFR 61.56: the full rules
- FAA instrument proficiency check (IPC): when you need one
- How long is an FAA medical good for? First, second, third class
- FAA ATP requirements: the 1,500 hours of 61.159 and the R-ATP
- FAA commercial pilot hours: the 250 hours of 14 CFR 61.129
- FAA instrument rating requirements: the 61.65 hours explained
- FAA night: logging night time vs night currency vs lights
- FAA Form 8710-1 and IACRA: filling in the Record of Pilot Time
- Logging dual and CFI logbook endorsements: 61.51(h) and 61.189
- Logging simulator time with the FAA: what FFS, FTD and ATD count