Electronic logbooks

[Masterplan]

Anybody know how airlines respond when you bring an electronic logbook printout into an interview?

 

[Halfcent]

I've been using log book pro for about 2-3 years now. When I realized how awesome it was, I completely stopped using a paper log book.

The reporting functions of the application are the most difficult part however. If you figure out how to get 2 sided page printing to work with whatever kind of printer you are using, you can get a really nice output.

I print landscape style, bind the pages on the short edge of a standard sheet of paper, and keep it in a regular ring binder. It looks very professional. I have interviewed with it and have had no negative comments about it. While it contains my every flight from when I started (I went back and entered all my data, its the best way really), I still brought along my originals because they have the checkride endorsements in them.

From my experience, the log book review has more to do with looking for those endorsements and seeing if you passed or failed checkrides. They don't care so much about the total time on the last page.

 

[kill whitey]

Yeah, I use DSSLog and never had any trouble at any of my interviews. I think electronic logbooks look a lot more organized and professional. I, too, print my monthly totals at the end of the month on plain paper, then put it in a 3 ring binder in sheet protectors.

 

[whitey]

Kill whitey?

wtf. I never did anything to you!!!!

whitey

 

[I.P. Freley]

What about the endorsements?

A coworker of mine did something that hadn't even occurred to me... having used his scanner, he has what amounts to photocopies of all his signed/endorsed pages in the back of his printed-out computerized logbook. I guess he's re-entered all of his flights from day one, and if you flip to the back of the book, there's a picture-perfect reproduction of all those signoffs/bfr's/etc right there in the back.

I think I may follow suit on that one.

 

[xdashdriver]

I use Logbook Pro and went all out and got the paper and leather binders etc. to go with it for my interviews. I got VERY positive comments about the presentation. Expensive, but worth it.

Ray

 

[7B2]

wtf. I never did anything to you!!!!

whitey

Now I'm curious too

 

[Gulfstream 200]

its a logbook.

dont sweat it, dont overdue it, dont be different, dont stick out.

Interviews are a VERY short time to present and sell yourself.

keep it simple - a neat logbook.

 

[Masterplan]

Thats all fine and great but when they send you home for having a first class medical ten days out of date or you ask the wrong question in Q and A time I think that besides being "you," you have to make sure that you dot all the I's and cross all the T's. I am just trying to avert a disaster in the interview room. Especially with all those fresh out of college 500 hour pilots wanting the job as well.