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You must have missed that day in law schoolmidlifeflyer said:But there seem to be a whole bunch of folks who believe in the one-color only "rule". Not only in aviation. You can't imagine (or maybe you can) how many times I've heard that all legal documents =must= be signed in black ink.
It was fairly common in the engineering world where you have drawings which might be marked , then then copied and you didn't what your marks showing up in the copies. They were called non-repro blue pencils. I don't know if they still sell them.midlifeflyer said:That one at least has a basis in reality. In the olden days, photocopiers has problems with blue. In fact, they used to sell a light blue pen or pencil that supposedly let you write on things so that the notes would be invisible when copied.
On thee other hand, some advocate signing in blue so there's no question that it is an original signed document, rather than a copy of a signed document, which might have been altered during the copying preocess.midlifeflyer said:So the custom started of signing legal documents in black. Somehow that got translated by the mythologists-that-be into a "rule"
In fact just the other day I was filling out some official form and the instructions were to sign in blue ink.
Yeah, that's what I do when I find an error. I agree that it's a much better approach. there's no appearance of hiding anything or changing anything, it's all out in the open and it's neat and it's probably not going to be noticed unless somone's really scrutinizing you logbookshamrock[U said:[/u]]Don't know if it's the accounting classes I've taken, but why not just make an adjusting entry on one line in your logbook correcting the error? You could write an explanation into the entry explaining the error so in the unlikely event someone noticed it they would understand what you did.
Seems a bit easier (and neater) that 10 pages of white out and your totals would add up correctly again.
Just a thought.
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