Logbooks and Majors

[MooneyPilot]

Just purchased log ten pro and was thinking about inputing all my flight time from day 1.
Think this would look good for an interview??

Also when filling out apps they ask you for all sorts of details that takes forever to find in your paper log books.

Any thoughts??

 

[HalinTexas]

Whatever you do, don't throw out your paper books, and don't bring your "pocket logbooks" to an interview.

 

[ackattacker]

Personally I find a simple excel spreadsheet enables you to answer all the various flight time questions fairly easily (especially if you know how to write a simple "sum if" query). Combine that with paper logbook for the interview. You can log each flight, by the day, or even by the week or month and most interviewers couldn't care less so long as it's legible and reasonably consistent.

That said the electronic logbooks also work well. They may be more work in the end, though.

 

[MooneyPilot]

I will for sure keep the paper!

 

[dirkdigler]

I don't know the answer to this really but here's what happened to me.

On my last airline interview, the guy who was one of their check airmen had no interest in looking at the airline flying part of my logbooks. Rather he looked at my very first well worn logbook with duct tapes holding the covers and said, "Man, now this is a logbook! Love it!!". Then he flipped through it while I was being sweated out in the hot seat by other guys in the room and read every single one of my entries, remarks and all, sometimes chuckling in amusement, all the way until he got to the my first airline flying entry.

Take it for what it's worth...

Good luck!

 

[whatitdoing?]

Keep paper logbooks for at least your first 500 or so hours. I'm over 10,000 hours now, so I've gone electronic. Also, back it up. Computer farts will destroy your career.

 

[xjhawk]

well? Did you get the job? I had a couple of pricks at Air Wisconsin do that to me in 04' when I already had a job (but at the time AW was known as a good paying regional) so I was also "interviewing" them. Well, when the idiot started questioning my lack of actual instrument time in msp in February for a bunch of flights less than an hour when I obviously was not flying as a Instrument Instructor nor in planes that could fly in known icing. When I responded as such, he said that I still should have found a way to do it! I gave them a big no before they could even ask.

 

[Mamma]

I don't even keep a logbook. Too much of a pain in the rear.

 

[temcgrew]

Whatever you do, don't throw out your paper books, and don't bring your "pocket logbooks" to an interview.

The last interview I was at, one of the candidates had a briefcase full of "pocket logbooks". Probably 15 or more. I didn't see him in new hire training.

 

[whatitdoing?]

I use to do interviews at ASA. Sure, not a major, but the same principle. Logbooks are only a talking point and proof that you meet the minimums. Don't pencil whip it because it's easy to catch. Make it look professional, whether it's electronic or not, and have something to say. The rest will be obvious to the interviewer. They know you're nervous and want the job. They already know within 5 mins if they're going to hire you. The rest of the time it's to prove that you're NOT the person to be hired.