Hobby and craft logbooks · HB-01

Drone Flight Log

A free printable drone flight log — date, aircraft, pilot, location, times, duration and cumulative hours, battery cycles, weather and incidents, per flight.

First page of the Drone Flight Log — Keep your own continuous record of flights, hours and battery cycles, and capture an anomaly on the day it happened rather than reconstructing it months later.
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One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.

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The fillable versions have real form fields — open them in any PDF reader, type into them and save. Printing help.

What this sheet is for

Keep your own continuous record of flights, hours and battery cycles, and capture an anomaly on the day it happened rather than reconstructing it months later.

Who it is for

Hobby and commercial unmanned aircraft operators, model flyers, and anyone building a personal record of hours and incidents.

How to use it

  1. Write your operator ID or registration in the header exactly as it was issued to you.
  2. Give each aircraft a letter and use that letter in the log, so the lines stay short.
  3. Log take-off and landing times as you fly, and carry the cumulative hours down the page.
  4. Record the battery ID and its cycle count on every line — that column is what makes a pack's decline visible.

What is on the sheet

The layout is fixed at a size that fits both A4 and US Letter, so the A4 and Letter files are visually identical and print at full size on either. Rows are set at a height that an adult can actually write a date and a few words into with a pen — most printable tables are built in a word processor and never tested with one.

Questions

Does keeping this sheet make me compliant with anything?

No. It is a personal record and nothing more. Registration, operator ID, licensing and record-keeping duties for unmanned aircraft differ by country and change often, and this sheet quotes none of them. Check what applies where you fly before you fly — the sheet evidences no permission, qualification or compliance on its own.

Why are there no height, distance or airspace limits printed on it?

Because they are set locally, differ between countries and can differ again by where and why you are flying. A limit printed on paper outlives the version of the rules it was copied from, so the sheet gives you a column for the airspace class you were in and leaves the rules to the authority that sets them.

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