Three columns, and none of them wins. Keep a paper book (Jeppesen Professional or the cheaper ASA Standard), a free electronic log (MyFlightbook), and LogTen or SafeLog when the job is an airline-format export. Pilots who keep both say a totaled digital book is the one they email before an interview. The same products, framed for training, are on the GA logbooks page.
By a working airline pilot · How we pick · Last reviewed Oct 2, 2026 (ET)
What changed: first published. Prices opened the same day on Aircraft Spruce, ASA, Amazon, MyFlightbook, LogTen, and SafeLog.
Three choices
Paper, free electronic, and paid airline-export. These labels are the job, not a ranking. Jeppesen does not beat ASA, and LogTen does not beat SafeLog.
The column is the decision. A lower price in the paper column does not make that book the electronic log, and a free app does not export an airline schedule.
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Product
Column
What it is
Listed price
Where to buy
Jeppesen Professional
Paper
10001795-006 · 6-3/4 × 11-1/4 in · 13 lines/page · 130 pages cover to cover
Prices seen Oct 2, 2026. Jeppesen was $29.95 at both Aircraft Spruce and Amazon. ASA was $11.95 at Spruce and $14.95 on asa2fly.com.
Logbooks
The paper argument on r/flying is capacity, not a brand. The electronic argument splits by whether the log has to leave the airplane as an airline application.
Keep the columns apart. On r/flying, a pilot who had filled two basic Jeppesen books said to pay the extra for the Professional if the goal is past the private certificate, because the smaller books fill up fast. Another keeps the Professional on paper and ForeFlight as a backup. On the 2026 electronic-log thread, MyFlightbook is the repeated free pick, and LogTen is the one people name when an airline’s software is in the picture. A 2017 airlinepilotforums.com post (the thread index did not load) said the writer still keeps paper and digital, and that a digital book is easier to email before an interview because the columns already add up.
Jeppesen Professional Pilot Logbook
Paper · model 10001795-006 · part 13-21728 · JS506050
Size: 6-3/4 × 11-1/4 in on the Aircraft Spruce listing
Pages: Spruce’s Q&A says 130 pages from cover to cover, and 13 entry lines per page, with a totals line at the bottom of each page
Pages color: the same listing says pages may come green or white depending on availability
Listed price: ~$29.95 at Aircraft Spruce, in stock, free-shipping flag on the item. Amazon ASIN B001MT32QC was also ~$29.95 and in stock the same day. Jeppesen’s own shop did not return a product page, so that price is not used
$18 over the Spruce ASA ($29.95 − $11.95) is the gap a pilot on r/flying described as “the extra” once two smaller books were already full
Spruce buyers describe buying a second identical book years after the first. One called the remarks area too small for a CFI lesson, so a printed syllabus still does the training notes
13 lines a page is what a 2025 Spruce review complained had been 14. The Q&A confirms 13
It does not email an airline application. That job is LogTen or SafeLog
Choose the Professional when the paper book is the long record and you already know a basic book fills up. Vs the ASA: you pay $29.95 instead of $11.95 and get the larger Jeppesen layout, not a navy training hardcover. Vs MyFlightbook: this one is paper. Several pilots keep both.
Cover: navy hardcover. ASA’s own page calls it the Standard, navy blue, and includes instructor endorsements
Page count: not printed here. Spruce’s Q&A has given conflicting page counts in the past, so this page does not pick one
Listed price: ~$11.95 at Aircraft Spruce, schema marked in stock. ASA’s own page was ~$14.95. Amazon ASIN B017WQIIGM, titled as the navy ASA-SP-57, was ~$14.99
$11.95 is $18 under the Professional at the Spruce prices ($29.95 − $11.95)
Spruce buyers describe handing the navy hardcover to primary students and ending up with a stack of them, which they prefer to one book that will not fit a headset-bag pocket
The same r/flying thread that likes this book also says the smaller Jeppesens fill up. This is the inexpensive book, not the 130-page Professional
ASA’s own price is $3 over Spruce ($14.95 − $11.95). Amazon was $3.04 over Spruce
Choose the ASA for training and for a book you are willing to finish and replace. Vs the Professional: you save $18 at Spruce and give up the Jeppesen’s stated 13-line, 130-page layout. It is still paper. It is not MyFlightbook.
Price: the homepage calls it the most popular free logbook and says the account is free. Pilots on r/flying and Pilots of America describe it as free. There is no shelf price to invent
Apps: the homepage says flights can be recorded in a browser or on the free iOS and Android apps, and imported from a spreadsheet or another electronic log
Photo: official App Store screenshot of the MyFlightbook app (MyFlightbook LLC). It is a log screen, not a studio product shot
$0 against LogTen Basic at $79.99/year and SafeLog’s $59.99 auto-renew year
On Pilots of America, pilots who already like it do not see a reason to pay for ForeFlight’s logbook, and one says ForeFlight will not show the book as rows and columns
A 2026 r/flying poster had heard most airlines prefer LogTen and found LogTen hard to use. MyFlightbook is the flexible free log, not the airline-schedule product
A pilot in that thread called it open source. The homepage we opened does not say that, so this page does not repeat it as a spec
Choose MyFlightbook when the electronic book has to be free and readable as a log. Vs LogTen: you give up schedule import and the price. Vs paper: it does not replace the book several pilots still keep in the bag.
Basic: $79.99/year on logten.com/pricing. The page describes log, analyze, track, report, and backup
Pro: $129.99/year. The page says Pro adds LogTen for Mac, schedule importing for over 100 airlines, advanced smart filter groups, batch editing, custom reports, and additional flight-data imports
Trial: free for the first 50 hours logged. The page says that covers a student through the private certificate, and that an existing log import is free
Photo: official App Store screenshot from Coradine’s LogTen listing. Light background, not a cockpit photo
Pro is the listing that actually names schedule import. That is the airline-export reason to pay, $50/year over Basic ($129.99 − $79.99)
One LogTen user on r/flying said their airline’s software syncs and that the subscription is worth it. Another poster had heard airlines prefer it and still found the app hard
$79.99/year is not “free like MyFlightbook.” The first 50 hours are the free part
SafeLog’s one-year auto-renew price is $59.99, $20 under Basic, with a lifetime option LogTen’s pricing page does not list
Choose LogTen when the log has to follow an airline schedule or a Mac. Basic is the cheaper paid tier. Pro is the one with the schedule import. Neither one retires the paper book or makes MyFlightbook wrong.
Prices on the signup page, opened Oct 2, 2026: $59.99 for 1 year with auto-renewal; $69.99 for 1 year; $189.99 for 3 years; $299.99 for 5 years; $549.00 for 10 years; $999.99 lifetime
What pilots said: two long-term votes on r/flying, including one pilot at about 16 years, because it generates formats for different airlines. That is a pilot’s reason, not a feature table copied from a brochure we did not open
Photo: official App Store screenshot (Dauntless Software). The publisher’s shot sits on a dark background; it is the app UI, not a white studio pack shot
The one-year auto-renew price is $20.00 under LogTen Basic ($79.99 − $59.99) and $70 under LogTen Pro
A lifetime price is printed: $999.99. LogTen’s page we opened is annual only
$999.99 is a lot of $59.99 years (about 16.7) if you only wanted one season of airline forms
The page we opened is a price table. It does not, by itself, prove a schedule sync. LogTen Pro’s page does name schedule import
Choose SafeLog when you want a paid log with a printed lifetime option and pilots who say it writes airline formats. Vs LogTen Pro: you do not get the “over 100 airlines” schedule-import line from the page we opened, and you can pay once. It is the other airline-export choice, not the winner.
ForeFlight’s logbook shows up as the backup for people who already pay for the EFB. On r/flying, those pilots defend it and tell others to turn on the monthly spreadsheet email. We did not open a separate ForeFlight logbook price, so it is not a buy card. On Pilots of America, pilots who like MyFlightbook do not see a reason to start paying for it.
Garmin Pilot’s built-in log is the one the threads complain about. One pilot may keep ForeFlight only for logging. On Pilots of America the auto log is criticized for reusing the last airplane and for running short of Hobbs when several airplanes fly in a day. The 2017 airline-forum post said that auto log was useful in corporate flying and was not designed for 121. It is not a pick.
MCC PilotLog is the roster tool that 2017 post moved to, for flight numbers, pairing codes, and a roster download. We did not open a current price, so it is a name only.
How we choose
How these picks were researched
Prices and model numbers are from pages opened Oct 2, 2026. Pilot comments are paraphrased from public threads. This site did not fill out a logbook in an airplane.
