Understanding Your Totals

Why your totals may differ from what you expected, and how to reconcile your Dashboard with exports.

How totals are calculated

Wader counts all valid (complete) flights toward your totals. It does not infer or estimate missing values. Every flight that is counted is fully defined — all required fields have been filled in.

If a flight is missing any required information, it is saved but excluded from totals until it is completed.

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What makes a flight valid

The following fields are required for a flight to be counted:

Field	Notes
Flight date
Departure time (OUT)
Arrival time (IN)
Departure airport
Arrival airport
Aircraft type
Tail number (registration)
Pilot role (Function)
PIC name	Required under EASA rules

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Incomplete flights (gray vs. green)

Flights in your logbook are colour-coded based on their status:

• Gray — the flight is saved but incomplete. It is missing one or more required fields and is not counted in your totals or included in exports.

• Green — the flight is complete. All required fields are filled in and the flight is counted in your totals.

Once you fill in all required fields on an incomplete flight, it turns green and is counted immediately.

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How to find and fix incomplete flights

Option A — Use the filter:

Open the filter panel in your logbook and select Show incomplete logs only. This filters your logbook to show only the flights that still need attention.

Option B — Open an individual flight:

Open any flight and scroll down to the Flight Times summary section. You will see a Pending Items list showing exactly which fields are still missing.

Open an incomplete flight to see which required fields are missing

Work through each incomplete flight, fill in the missing fields, and save. Once all flights are green, your totals will reflect your complete logbook.

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Why your export may differ from the Dashboard

Your Dashboard shows all complete flights with no filters applied. When you export, you configure filters — and those filters can cause the PDF total to differ from what you see in the Dashboard.

Date range or aircraft filter

When exporting, you select a specific date range and one or more aircraft types. If those filters exclude some flights, the PDF total will be lower than your Dashboard total.

Previous experience toggle

The Add previous experience toggle in the export settings includes or excludes your previous experience totals. If it is off, those hours will not appear in the PDF.

Relief time deduction

If Deduct relief time is enabled in export settings, your PDF will show lower totals than your Dashboard, which always shows gross time.

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Matching the Dashboard exactly

To get a PDF that matches your Dashboard total exactly: select all aircraft, use the full date range, enable Add previous experience, and leave Deduct relief time off.

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Why totals may differ from other logbook systems

Different logbook systems handle missing data differently. Some systems count partial flights or infer missing values (such as estimating flight time from schedule data). Wader requires complete data for every counted flight, which ensures accuracy and consistency with regulatory requirements.

If your Wader totals differ from another system, it is likely that:

• The other system is counting flights that Wader considers incomplete.

• The other system is applying different rules for what counts as a valid entry.

The fix is the same either way: complete all flights in Wader so they show as green.