SACAA Logbook Export Is Now Live in Wader, Free for Every Pilot
- Antonio Ferraz
- 23 hours ago
- 3 min read
South African pilots have been asking us for this one for a long time, and it has been near the top of our feature requests for months. It is now live.
You can export your Wader logbook in the SACAA layout, formatted for printing, on the web app at logbook.waderaviation.com. It is available today on the free account. No upgrade, no trial, no PRO requirement.
Why the layout matters
Most pilots treat a logbook export as a convenience. If you fly under a South African licence, it is a recurring legal obligation.
CAR 61.01.8(1) allows electronic logbooks, but only on a condition: the data must be printed on paper at least every 90 days, and the printed pages filed sequentially in a binder. A South African pilot running an electronic logbook is printing four times a year, minimum, for the whole of their career. The output is not a backup. It is the logbook.
There is more on top of that. CAR 61.01.5(13) requires a certified summary of the preceding 12 months at least annually, and the revalidation regulations require certified copies of the last three pages along with all endorsements.
Every one of those steps involves somebody at the SACAA looking at printed pages and expecting them to be laid out the way the regulator expects. A logbook that is perfectly accurate but presented in a US or European column structure invites questions you should not have to answer.
What the export gives you
The export produces a print-ready PDF built on the SACAA column structure defined under CAR 61.01.7, the same structure as the TV2/126 flying logbook South African pilots have been filling in by hand for years. Your flights come out with the fields the regulator expects, in the order it expects them. Print it, punch it, file it in the binder, and the 90-day requirement is handled for the quarter.
Two practical points. You choose the period, so you can pull the last 90 days for quarterly filing or a full 12 months when the annual summary is due. And it is web app only for now. The iOS and Android apps do not have it yet, but your data is the same data, so sign in on a browser when it is time to print.
Free, and staying free
We put this on the free tier deliberately. Printing your logbook every 90 days is not a premium feature, it is the price of using an electronic logbook lawfully in South Africa, and charging for it would have been a strange thing to do. A student pilot with 40 hours and a free account has exactly the same filing obligation as a captain with 12,000. They both get the same export.
What we need from you
We built this from the regulations and the TV2/126 layout. It has been checked, but it has not yet been through the test that actually counts, which is South African pilots printing it, binding it, and handing it across a desk.
So generate an export, print a page, and look at it properly. Then tell us:
Does the column structure match your paper book?
Are the totals carrying forward and summarising the way you expect?
Does it print cleanly on A4, or is something cut off at the margins?
Is a field you need missing, or one you never use taking up space?
Did an examiner or the SACAA raise anything when you submitted it?
Send it through the support feature in the app or on the web app. That goes straight to the people who built this, with your account context attached, so we do not have to go back and forth asking which browser you were on or what date range you exported. Feedback in a forum is feedback we might see. Feedback through support is feedback we can act on, and if the fix is small you will often see it in the next release.
Where to find it
Sign in at logbook.waderaviation.com
Go to the export section of your logbook
Select the SACAA layout
Choose your export options and generate the PDF
More regional layouts are on the way, and the order we build them in is driven by what users ask for. This one exists because South African pilots asked, repeatedly and specifically. If your authority is next on your list, tell us on the comments below or through Support Hub - "Suggest and Improvement" option.
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