Leatherman has been the top brand in multi-tools for ages and with reason.The quality is supreme and its backed by a 25 year warranty.

Leatherman has refined their product over the years to a finely honed tool with different models to suit your needs.

The Leatherman Skeletool keeps weight and volume down to a minimum without sacrificing functionality.The blade is made of very high quality steel and the body is made of a tungsten alloy.The pliers have a soft and hardwire edge  and then the universal bit driver. There are multiple accessories that fit in the driver that will suit most needs.

The Leatherman Skeletool is not a replacement for a toolbox but for a quick repair or to get you out of a bind it is perfect.If you don’t have one get one,it might just be the tool that gets you home one day.

Electronic logbooks are fantastic and it will avoid that terrible sinking feeling if when you realised that you lost your logbook.

Coradine Aviation’s Logten Pro is probably the most powerful logbook on the market and it is a Mac/IOS based app that comes in iPad/iPhone and Mac version. It can be customized from PPL pilots, airline captains to carrier pilots.

With build in duty calculators and charter rates it is great for commercial pilots. If you want to know how many hours you have done at night on a certain route in a certain aircraft you can set it up in a second.

Logbooks and report can be printed out in different nationalities and formats and schedules can be imported straight into the program from major carriers.

Flights can be exported to your personal calendar or to Google Earth.Flight regencies and currencies can be followed with reminders expirations of medicals  or ratings.

Logten Pro is truly the base from which all other logbooks can be judge and its got a 40 hour trail version and cost around $140. The only reason not to buy it if you are in the market for a logbook is because you don’t run on IOS/Mac

It is a must for every flight bag to have a pilot flashlight in it. From a pre-dawn preflight or an after dark tie-down if you don’t have one, things can become very hard.

Some pilots prefer headlamps,  while others like a small flashlight whichever you prefer make sure it’s not low quality because when it fails you are literally in the dark. I prefer headlamps, biting down on a metal tube while testing fuel or looking for a chart can become tricky.

A good idea is to have a bright setting for outside (too bright is just as bad as to dim) and a dim one for inside. A great function is a red light for preservation of night vision.

A small ergonomic pilot flashlight beats a bigger high power light hands down.

Petzl Tikka Plus

Petzl make some great outdoor flashlights and the Petzl Tikka Plus
is perfect for pilots.

The Tikka is lightweight and sits very comfortably on your head. It runs on 3 AAA batteries and the battery life is astonishingly long.

It’s got a bright and dim function, strobe function and a red light for night vision.