PilotLog can monitor recency on several aircraft types, with varying requirements. You can add as many individual monitoring criteria as you need, and they will be listed on this screen. If, for example, you are dual-rated and are required to complete, say, one landing per month on each type, you can add two entries (one for each type) requiring one landing per month. Expiry dates will be calculated for each type separately.

To add criteria, click 'Add New'. To edit or delete criteria, simply click on the one you wish to change and an edit window will pop up allowing you to edit or delete the entry.

General Recency Monitoring Options
'Display recency monitoring on each log page' will show a note at the bottom of each page of your log (online only, not when printing) summarising your recency. This may be 'Recency OK', 'Recency expires dd/mm/yyyy' or 'RECENCY EXPIRED'. Note that nothing will be displayed on your log pages unless you have entered one or more monitoring criteria. If you have several criteria and an expiry date is shown, it will be the most limiting date of all the expiries. 'Recency OK' means that your recency criteria will not expire within the timescale specified below:

'Check forward by xx days' allows you to select how far into the future PilotLog should check to see when your recency expires. Higher values give more advance warning of expiry, but take longer to calculate.

If you have several criteria, particularly hours requirements (hours take longer to calculate than simply counting landings), then ticking the 'display recency monitoring on each log page' may cause a noticable delay in loading log pages. If this is unacceptable, choose a smaller value for 'check forward by' or untick the option to display recency on each log page.

You can choose to display the number of autolands since your last sim check. This can be usfeul for monitoring AWOPS recency requirements. By default, this information is shown only in your simulator log, but you can choose here to display it in your flying log as well (perhaps to remind you do complete a practise autoland) or not to display it at all.

After changing any of these options, you must click 'apply changes'. If you do not, any changes you have made will be lost when you close the window.

List of Monitoring Criteria
A full list is shown of all monitoring criteria that you have entered. Against each is a measure of how many hours/landings you have achieved in the required period, and a projected expiry date for your recency. For example in the screenshot above, there is a requirement to complete 3 landings every 90 days on a 737. There are 32 achieved landings in the past 90 days in the log, so recency is OK. By looking forward, PilotLog has calculated that if no further flights are made, recency will expire on 17/06/2007. Note that provisional flights are ignored in these calculations.