10 year Logbook life?!

[HAZ-MAT]

I started all my flight training and all with the Jeppesen Professional Pilot Logbook
and last week I doing my update, and I came to the last page! So I got online and ordered another one. Well I received it in the mail today, and the sticker on the wrap says that the logbook is designed for a 10 Year Life!! Is there a problem that it only took me 5 years to fill one up? Does that mean that I'm not working hard at hardly working??

 

[User546]

Yea, your working WAY TOO HARD.

Your five years ahead of schedule, pull the throttles back to economy cruise, and slow down.

 

[SuperFLUF]

There's only 10 years of summary pages in the back. If you fill it up before then it means you're either flying your arse off or doing lots of short little hops.

I filled my first one up in 8 years (6 years with the airlines) so now I use one line per day instead of per leg. Combine that with my current low time months on reserve and I will probably fill up the summary pages before the main body.

I'll will have switched to Logbook Pro long before that happens though. I still like to keep track of my time but the idea of having all my pairing info in my Treo and then instantly in a logbook with just a hot-sync is quite attractive. Just hard to justify the $$ right now with the 30-50 hours a month that I fly on reserve.

 

[Kingairrick]

It means you need to join the new century and go "E" in the logbook area.

 

[Lead Sled]

Does that mean that I'm not working hard at hardly working??

I hope you're only logging the minimum amount that you need in order to show currency. If you're logging more than that you're just wasting paper.

'Sled

 

[HAZ-MAT]

Lead Sled: I am a little confused with your post. I do understand about logging time for currency sake, but how about continuing to log time so that one day I could possibly move on to a bigger company. I only have 2600 TT. So wouldn't I want to continue to log time?

 

[Lead Sled]

I hope you're only logging the minimum amount that you need in order to show currency. If you're logging more than that you're just wasting paper.

My mistake...

I should have signed it:

Tongue Firmly in Cheek ,

'Sled

 

[HAZ-MAT]

Cheers

 

[avbug]

I have that same logbook right now. I've filled up about a third of it in the last four and a half years. The log prior to that was a Sporty's log (the bigger one), and that took a little over ten years. I'd used smaller ones before that, and they didn't take so long.

The problem I found with a logbook lasting that long to fill up is that it gets beaten to death. They may have room for that much recording, but surviving use over that long a period of time (at least for me) means the logbook is going to get worn out. Presently I just put one day per line, though I've done a week per line in the past, or even just a flight per line.

I think the smaller logs are probably better, as they're more survivable.

How did you fill up a logbook with 2,600 hours?

 

[HAZ-MAT]

How did you fill up a logbook with 2,600 hours?

I did about 4 months line by line when i started at my 135 job. Then I switched over to putting the entire day on one line. So partly my fault on the paper wasting!

 

[User546]

OK I have to admit, I've never heard of people logging just one line for an entire day of flying.

How do you guys do that, and what information do you put if you've flown multiple legs that day?

Thanks...