CASA Logbook Export Is Now Live in Wader

Antonio Ferraz
11 minutes ago
4 min read

Australian pilots have been asking for this one. The CASA layout is now live.

You can export your Wader logbook formatted for CASR Part 61, ready to print, on the web app at logbook.waderaviation.com. It is web only for now.

Why the layout matters

Every authority wants a logbook. Australia is unusual in how specifically it tells you what happens when someone asks to see it, and how little time you get.

Seven days to produce it. Seven years to keep it. Every printed page certified as a true copy.

That is the shape of CASR Part 61, and it is why the layout is not cosmetic.

The seven-day clock

Under CASR 61.365, CASA can direct you to produce your personal logbook, and you have seven days to comply. Failing to produce an up-to-date version within that window is an offence carrying 50 penalty units.

Seven days sounds generous until you are mid-roster, away from base, and the version you can reach is a spreadsheet that has never been laid out for anyone but you.

The true copy requirement

This is the detail that catches people, and it is specific to Australia.

Where a logbook is kept electronically, CASR 61.365 treats production as satisfied only if you produce a printed copy and each page is certified by you as a true copy of the records on that page. Not the file. Not a summary. Printed pages, each one certified.

An export that produces a wall of rows is not the same thing as an export you can sign page by page and hand over. That is why every page of the CASA export carries an Entries Certified Correct block, with signature, title, A.R.N. and date, laid out the way the printed book does it.

Printed CASA logbook pages from Wader: a holder details page with name, licence type, CAA reference and signature, above flight rows with single-engine, multi-engine, instrument and specialist instructor columns and the Entries Certified Correct block with page totals.

Seven years, unaltered

CASR 61.355 requires you to retain the logbook for seven years after the last entry, and to keep every entry unaltered across that period. Separately, CASR 61.360 makes a false or misleading logbook entry an offence in its own right.

Together those create a specific obligation: a record that is fixed, accurate, and reproducible on demand years after you stopped flying the aeroplane in question.

What the CASA logbook export gives you

The CASA logbook export lays your record out against the fields CASR 61.345 actually asks for, so what comes off the printer maps to the regulation rather than to a generic template.

Details worth knowing before you print:

Single-engine and multi-engine each carry the four capacities the regulation names (ICUS, dual, command and co-pilot), split day and night
ICUS is its own category, not folded into command time. Student pilot in command goes to dual, because CASR 61.010 defines pilot-in-command-under-supervision as excluding student pilots
Instrument time in flight and simulated instrument time have their own columns
Instrument approach operations are captured with the type of procedure flown
Flight instructor and flight examiner time sit in a Specialist and Instructor group, split single-engine, multi-engine and simulator, so instructing hours never inflate your command total
Simulator sessions get their own column and never count toward flying hours. A session you instructed is recorded separately from one you flew as a trainee, and the activity description carries through
Three totals rows per page (this page, brought forward, to date), plus Total Flying This Page, Grand Total Flying Hours, and Total Aeronautical Experience, which adds your simulator time
Set your title once per export: Captain, First Officer, Second Officer, or your own wording. Your A.R.N. comes from the Licence document in your Wader profile and prints on every page

Two things to know

The printed Australian logbook has co-pilot columns only under multi-engine. We added a single-engine pair, because a pilot logging co-pilot time in a single-engine turbine would otherwise have those hours vanish from the export entirely. If you have never flown single-engine co-pilot, your pages will look exactly like the book. If you have, you will see two columns the printed book does not have.

To satisfy the requirement in 61.345 to record your full name and date of birth, switch on the Personal Details page in the export options. It is off by default. Adding your digital signature to the certification blocks is a Pro feature; without it the lines print blank for you to sign by hand.

You choose the period, so you can print a full career record for a licence application or a shorter run for an audit response. A4 or US Letter, and you can set how many rows go on a page. The data is drawn from the logbook you already keep, so there is nothing to re-enter.

What we need from you

We built this from CASR Part 61 and the published guidance. It has been checked. It has not yet been through the test that counts, which is an Australian pilot printing it, certifying the pages, and handing it to CASA without a question coming back.

So run an export, print a few pages, and look at it properly. Then tell us:

Does the column structure match the book you have been keeping?
Is there room on each page to certify it as a true copy the way you would want to?
Are ICUS, instrument and night columns split the way your operator records them?
Does it print cleanly on A4, or is something cut off at the margin?
Are the totals carrying forward the way you expect?
Did CASA, a flight examiner or a recruiter raise anything when you submitted it?

That last one is the question we want most. Everything above it we can reason about from the regulations. That one we cannot.

Send it through the support feature in the app or on the web app. It reaches the people who built this, with your account context attached, so we are not guessing at your setup.