In the currency page, it would be kinda nifty if you could tap the specific currency item and have it display a list of flights it decided to use to determine that currency requirement.
It'd be helpful when you know your paper log says you're current and MFB says you're not and you're trying to figure out where the error is. Like doing something dumb like not entering the right number of landings or similar.
Maybe this has been covered before but it also LOOKS to me like, and I could be wrong here... that today's Citabria flight only counted for 1 landing for daytime -- I entered 3, and 3 at a towered airport, and then 2 touch and goes, and there's no particular "full stop" entry that I see...
But I can't quite tell if the currency page counts that as three or one for day currency. It may be correct, it's just kinda "nebulous" without it showing what it used to determine currency.
Yeah, I've had this request a bunch, but it's actually really hard to do. For things like passenger currency (3 takeoffs/landings, and I only look at landings in this case because, well, most people just log landings), it's generally pretty easy to point to the specific flights controlling the currency. But other currencies are considerably more complicated or inherently ambiguous.
Consider, for example, instrument currency: suppose on Jan 1 you do 6 approaches and a hold in a real aircraft. You're now current per 61.57(c)(1) until July 31. Now suppose that on May 15, you do 6 approaches, holding, and the other maneuvers specified by 61.57(c)(3) in an ATD. That also makes you current until...July 31. So now you ask "My Instrument currency is good until July 31 - which flights contributed to that?" You can choose. It was either your Jan 1 flight or your May 15 flight, or both. And further, the ATD rule says you need 3 hours of instrument experience in an ATD; suppose you've got 10 hours of that spread throughout a bunch of flights in May. Which flights counted towards the 3 hours? Answer: any subset you like that adds up to 3 hours.
So "which flights did it for me?" is, unfortunately, an impossible question to answer in a deterministic way; I can only answer whether or not you meet the requirements.
Maybe this has been covered before but it also LOOKS to me like, and I could be wrong here... that today's Citabria flight only counted for 1 landing for daytime -- I entered 3, and 3 at a towered airport, and then 2 touch and goes, and there's no particular "full stop" entry that I see...
But I can't quite tell if the currency page counts that as three or one for day currency. It may be correct, it's just kinda "nebulous" without it showing what it used to determine currency.
This gets a little confusing, but the 3 fields on the main form are the key ones here. The "Landings" field is the total number of times that wheels touch ground (or, I suppose, water/snow, if you're appropriately equipped). This field - and only this field - counts towards 61.57(a) for other than a tailwheel airplane, since 61.57(a) does not distinguish touch-and-go from full-stop, day from night. ALL OTHER landing fields, both on the main form but also in the list of properties that you can attach to a flight, are descriptive - and potentially overlapping - subsets of this field. 61.57(a).
For tailwheel currency, full-stop is required, so I look at Full Stop Day and Full-Stop Night landings (which is why these are on the main form). These are also subsets of the total landings count. And for night currency (61.57(b)), I look at the Full-Stop Night landings.
All of the other types of landing counts that you might specify (touch-and-go, towered, no-flap, short-field, soft-field, etc.) are really for your own information; they do not contribute towards currency. Mostly again this is because they can be overlapping. E.g., you could have a flight with 3 total landings, but two of them were short field, two were soft field, two were at a towered airport, and two were touch and go; obviously some landings checked multiple boxes, but if I looked at each of these landing types I'd (erroneously) determine that you had done eight (or perhaps eleven?) landings.
At one point I had considered removing this ambiguity by having you add a landing record for each landing, and then adding attributes to each record ("this landing was a touch-and-go on a soft-field with a tower"). While that would certainly be unambiguous, data entry would be a pain in the neck.
For your flight today, I see that you did in fact enter 1 full-stop landing. (It says "3 (1D)" in the landings column, which means "3 total landings, 1 full-stop-day") Since the Citabria is a tailwheel, that's why it only counted one landing towards your currency.
