Finding Missing Flights

Your flights are saved in the cloud, so they are almost never lost. When flights or hours seem to have disappeared, the cause is nearly always one of the checks below. Work through them in order: most pilots find their flights in the first three.

1. Check which account you are signed in to

Signing in with a different email, or with Apple, Google or Facebook instead of your usual way, can open a second, empty account. Your flights are still in your original account.

To see which account you are in, go to More › Profile & Account. The Email and Sign-in method rows show the account you are using.

If it is not the account you expected, sign out and sign in again: type your usual email on the sign in screen and tap Continue, and Wader tells you how that account signs in. See Signing in & Account Access.

If you have flights in two accounts, contact us from More › Support Hub and ask for an account merge. See Duplicate accounts.

2. Sync your logbook

Flights logged or changed on another device, or on the web, appear on this device after a sync.

Make sure you are online.
On the Logbook tab, tap Sync (the circular arrows at the top right), or pull down on the list and release.
If the flights were added on another phone or tablet, sync that device first, then this one.

A red cloud on a flight card means that change is still only on that device. It uploads automatically once the device is online. See Syncing Your Logbook.

3. Clear any search or filter

A search or filter that is still on hides every flight that does not match it. When one is on, a summary card at the top of the list shows the number of flights found, the Filters button shows a badge, and each filter shows as a chip under the search box.

Tap Clear all on the summary card to show your whole logbook again. See Searching & Filtering.

4. Look for incomplete flights and simulator sessions

If the flights are in your logbook but your hours look short:

Incomplete flights have an amber edge and a MISSING tag. They are not counted in your totals or included in exports until you complete them. Tap the tag to see what is missing. To list them all, turn on Incomplete only in the Logbook filters. See Flight Validation.
Simulator sessions (purple edge) are counted separately from your flight time on the Dashboard. See Logging Simulator Time.

For other reasons totals can differ from an old logbook or a PDF, see Understanding Your Totals.

5. Download all your flights again

If a sync did not bring the flights back:

Update Wader to the latest version from the App Store or Google Play.
Go to More › Database Manager and open the Repair tab.
Tap Download All Flights. This downloads every flight again from the cloud and deletes nothing on your device.

If flights are still missing, or the app cannot finish downloading, Repair Local Database on the same tab rebuilds Wader’s data on this device. Read Repairing the logbook on your device before you use it: any change that has not synced yet (red cloud) is lost.

6. Contact support

Still missing flights? Go to More › Support Hub and send us a message. Tell us:

the email of the account you expect the flights in
roughly which flights are missing (dates or how many)
which devices you use Wader on, including the web

See Getting Help.