PilotIQ Logbook isn't CASA‑only. It's built to work under CASA, the FAA and EASA (and the UK CAA), adapting its currency rules, medical items, licence types and reports to the authority you fly under. This guide is for pilots outside the Australian system.
1. Pick your authority at signup
First time in, onboarding asks for your authority — choose FAA or EASA (you can change it any time in Settings → Logbook). Everything downstream follows this choice: the recency and currency items you track, the medical you record, the licence and rating names, and the report layouts. If you operate under more than one system, set your primary authority here and the others' reports are still available on demand.
2. Your pilot identifier
Every authority identifies you differently, and PilotIQ stores whichever is yours in My profile:
- CASA — your ARN (Aviation Reference Number).
- FAA — your certificate number.
- EASA / UK CAA — your licence number.
Whatever you enter flows onto your reports so the right identifier appears where an examiner, employer or authority expects it.
3. Currency, medical & flight‑time limits
The Currency tab tracks what has to stay valid for your system — for example the FAA's flight review and 90‑day passenger‑carrying recency (day/night, and the type‑specific landings), IFR recency, and your medical (FAA class / BasicMed, or your EASA Class 1/2/LAPL); or the EASA licence and rating validity and revalidation windows. Flight‑ and duty‑time limits likewise follow your authority's scheme. Items are colour‑coded and sorted so the next thing to renew is always on top, and expiry reminders (Settings) push you before anything lapses.
4. Reports in your authority's format
From the Logbook tab → Reports you can generate the layout your system uses:
- FAA — an 8710‑style experience record (the aeronautical‑experience breakdown an FAA application draws on).
- EASA — the FCL.050 logbook layout.
- Plus the general Flight experience report — totals, recency and hours by aircraft type — which works whatever your authority.
Reports are formatted extracts of your own records to support an application or review — they are not official regulator forms, and you remain responsible for the accuracy of your logbook.
5. Everything else works the same
Logging flights, offline entry, instructor/examiner sign‑offs, importing your history from ForeFlight / LogTen / MCC PILOTLOG, insights and multi‑device sync all work exactly as in the main Logbook guide — only the rules, identifiers and report formats change to match your authority.