UK CAA Logbook Export Is Now Live in Wader

British pilots have been asking for this one for a long time, and it has sat near the top of our feature requests for months. It is now live.

You can export your Wader logbook in the UK CAA layout, formatted for printing, on the web app at logbook.waderaviation.com. It is web only for now.

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Why the layout matters

Most pilots treat a logbook export as a convenience. If you fly under a UK licence, it is the evidence your licence rests on.

UK retained Part-FCL requires you to keep a reliable record of every flight, in a form and manner established by the competent authority. The detail sits in AMC1 FCL.050, which sets out a sample logbook format and the fields that have to be captured for each flight and each FSTD session.

There is no ninety-day print rule in the UK, and no requirement to file pages in a binder every quarter. That is the South African regime, not this one.

What the UK has instead is a set of moments when your logbook stops being a personal record and becomes the document your application succeeds or fails on. A licence issue. A rating. An ATPL application. A revalidation. A proficiency check. An airline sift where somebody wants your totals evidenced rather than asserted.

At any of those the CAA, an examiner or a recruiter can ask to see the record. The question is never whether you kept one. It is whether what you hand over is legible, complete against AMC1 FCL.050, and laid out so the person assessing it can find what they need without reconstructing it themselves.

A logbook that satisfies you and a logbook that satisfies an assessor are not always the same document.

What the UK CAA logbook export gives you

The UK CAA logbook export produces a print-ready file built on the column structure set out in the sample format, so what comes off your printer looks like the book an assessor already knows how to read.

It also carries a holder page. The CAA expects a logbook to identify whose it is, so the export includes a certification block with your name, licence number, CAA reference, place of birth, the date and your signature. That page is the part most generic exports leave out, and it is one of the more UK-specific things we built.

Several details in the flight pages matter more than pilots tend to expect:

• Times are recorded in UTC rather than local

• Take-offs and landings are split day and night, not totalled

• Pilot function is broken out across PIC, co-pilot, dual and instructor, with SPIC and PICUS logged within PIC and certified in the remarks column, as AMC1 FCL.050 requires

• Single-engine, multi-engine and multi-pilot time are separated

• The remarks column carries your own per-flight remarks, and where a flight has been signed in the app, the countersignature block with name, licence number and signature image

• Accumulated totals carry forward page to page

Two practical points. You choose the period, so you can pull a full career summary for a licence application or a shorter window for a check. And it is drawn from the record you already keep, so you set your holder details once and the flight data comes straight through.

One thing an export cannot do for you. Where the rules call for a countersignature, on SPIC time or on flight time under supervision, that signature has to come from the instructor or the pilot in command. Software can produce the page. It cannot sign it for you.

What we need from you

We built this from AMC1 FCL.050 and the published guidance. It has been checked. It has not yet been through the test that actually counts, which is a British pilot putting it in front of the CAA and having it accepted without a question.

So generate an export, print a page, and look at it properly. Then tell us:

• Does the column structure match the paper book you have been keeping?

• Does the holder page carry everything the CAA has asked you for before?

• Are the totals carrying forward and summarising the way you expect?

• Does it print cleanly on A4, or is something cut off at the margin?

• Is a field you need missing, or is one you never use taking up space?

• Did the CAA, an examiner or a recruiter raise anything when you submitted it?

That last question is the one we want most. Everything before 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 goes straight to the people who built this, with your account context attached, so we are not guessing at which version you are on or how your logbook is set up.

Where to find it

1. Open logbook.waderaviation.com and sign in

2. Open Export from the sidebar

3. Select the UK CAA layout

4. Choose your period and generate

More regional layouts are on the way, and the order we build them in is driven by what pilots ask for. This one exists because British pilots asked, repeatedly, and kept asking.

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Wader is an electronic pilot logbook built by professional pilots. Open the web app and export your UK CAA logbook in a couple of clicks.