Getting logbook ready for interview

[wannabe22]

I have a question for everyone-

I have a friend who has an interview at a major in a month but hasn't touched his logbook is quite some time. I was wondering if anyone had any advice as to how he can get his logbok up and ready and make it look good and spend as little time as possible?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

WB22

 

[Amish RakeFight]

I have a question for everyone-

I have a friend who has an interview at a major in a month but hasn't touched his logbook is quiet some time. I was wondering if any had any advice as to how he can get his logbok up and ready and make it look good and spend as little time as possible?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

WB22

A major interview is the opportunity of a lifetime. Tell your friend to open his logbook and pen the entries. I don't think there's any other way. Perhaps an hours worth every night depending on how long its been.

Also, he may want to look into an electronic logbook. Logbook Pro works with some PDA's which can make recording your time much easier.

 

[wannabe22]

its been about 7 years, would it look ok to put some of the earlier enteries month by month and some of the most recent sequence by sequence?

 

[MJG]

If "your friend" hasn't logged anything in 7 years, and now wants a job at a major, he's got 7 years worth of logbook entries to catch up on, plain and simple. Gotta get them all in there somehow, someway. Leg/Day/Month at a time, that's his choice, but the more detailed and accurate his personal logs, the better it reflects on him.

Really no easy way to do it unless he uses APDL (Part of Logbook Pro these days), they do offer a service to enter entries into your overall electronic logbook. That's the only kind of service like that, that I know of.

The combo of a Palm/PocketPC and electronic logbook are worth every penny IMO.

 

[jke406]

why is it always the guy's "friend?"

it will be difficult to get past anyone's logbook review without several hours of work to catch up.

 

[AA717driver]

I've got gallons of whiteout and yards of 'white-tape' and even cut out some pages when my wife and I entered the same info twice... Your logbook should be like your flight kit--the more beat up it is, the more experienced you appear.

Most trips are entered for the whole trip on one line (multiple days) and identified with the pairing number (of course I have NO idea where I went--but it was a DC9/717 so it couldn't have gone too far from STL...). FE time is certainly logged that way. Who cares where you landed, the pressurization works the same in LAX as it does in ARN.

But the bottom line is: write it in, don't show up with a bunch of time sheets in a binder. TC

 

[Tanker Clown]

When all else fails, just kinda make up some stuff. Just try and get it to be approximate. They probably won't go back and check anyway.

I'd also talk to my buddies. Find some good "tell me about a time" stories." It might help to use some of those if they are better than yours.

A job interview is kinda like a first date. It's OK to stretch the truth...and even lie if you get in her pants. In this case, the pants are probably at a major that will furlough you within a year. So don't feel bad.

 

[wannabe22]

Thanks for all the help guys.

WB22

 

[av8tordude23]

I think its really important that you continue to log your time day by day, BC you never know if you'll get the F-letter in your file. In this career, you will be furlough at least once, and in some case 2x.

Using an electronic logbook is very convenient over the tedious pen-n-ink, imho.

 

[crudeoilpilot]

7 yrs ?

I just did 2 years worth from trip books to master. Holy s### about 15 hours of real work. Never again will I let it go that far.
I work with someone whose last entries are 1984. Of course he is not going to go anywhere else, but what eats me is he is always advising everyone on how to get your stuff done. I'm sure everbody knows one of these guys.

 

[petitepilot]

It took me 11 days working about 7 hrs a day to update 8 years. and you wouldn't believe the discrepancies. ALL screwed up. Took a lot more hours to figure that out on top of the 11 days.

 

[FurloughedAgain]

My paper logs look like heck between white out, tape, etc. Logbook pro looks 100 times better but I still find mistakes from time to time. Garbage in, garbage out.

 

[Fly High]

I still keep a paper copy as well as Logbook Pro. I am not 100% convinced that someday the computer version will not get all jacked up by some computer glitch and I won't have to recreate it from paper again. If ever invited to interview with a major, is the best idea to present the pretty/fancy Logbook Pro version and keep the beaten up paper version in my brief case in the event that it is needed?

 

[atlcrashpad]

why is it always the guy's "friend?"QUOTE]

Cause it wood be embareassin' if you say'd you'd dun it.......
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[Varmint]

FWIW....I have been doing monthly totals in my logbook for the last 8-10 years and save 1 years worth of printed monthly rosters with the totals included that match the logbook in case I have to go elsewhere and interview. I had a Delta interviewer tell me that's the way he does it and my current employer had no issues with it during the interview. Much easier and cleaner....plus your not lugging 20 logbooks around with you.