Logbook Issue - suggestions

[midlifeflyer]

If you use it as a guideline for what you can't do you are reasonably safe,

That's always true. When someone says, "Don't," (rightly or wrongly) its usually reasonably safe to obey.

 

[PositionandHold]

Sorry I neglected to keep up with this post. I should have clarified. I logged the landings that I needed as with several intro rides per month, I landed a lot "solely".

My question is simply the landings which my students did. I simply did not log the landings which were performed by my students, and I was trying to figure out if I should have logged those. Obviously, there was at least 1 landing per lesson, so putting one per each would not be falsifying.

 

[down2mins]

I don't make note of my students' landings, just make sure they put the correct # in their logbook before I sign it.

 

[flyinghunter]

Do you have a personal reason for wanting to log your students landings, are you trying to get some statistics on how many landings they take before solo or something like that. Beyond that I see no reason for logging thier landings. If it's in your logbook it looks like you did it, and there's no reason to make a reason for somebody to question your logbook during an interview in the future, if that's a desire for you. When I was flight instructing the only things that I logged and have on record are those things required by the FARs, like solo privaleges and things of that nature. But to answer your question, at least what I think it is. No, you don't need to log your students landings in your logbook, just those you did by yourself for currency. I think anybody looking through your logbook and seeing dual given and no landings will rightfully assume that your students made that landings. On a side note I never logged instrument approaches that my students did in IFR either. Although it's legal, I look at it the same as the landings, if I didn't do it, it didn't matter. Just made sure I'd fly an approach each month or so.

 

[midlifeflyer]

Sorry I neglected to keep up with this post. I should have clarified. I logged the landings that I needed as with several intro rides per month, I landed a lot "solely".

My question is simply the landings which my students did. I simply did not log the landings which were performed by my students, and I was trying to figure out if I should have logged those. Obviously, there was at least 1 landing per lesson, so putting one per each would not be falsifying.

Botton line is that your students' landings don't count for your for any regulatory reason and writing them up so that they look like they do can potentially lead to a logbook falsification charge, for which the standard penalty is revocation of all certificates and ratings.

The only good reason I've ever heard to log student landings is so that if your student loses his logbook, you can put them in. But since students don't have landing currency requirements, their landings (except for a few requirements like the 10 at night) don't mean anything, so even that reason is weak. But I guess if you recreate =everything= in your student's logbook in yours, might as well include their landings. But it seems to me there are better ways of keeping student records than in your logbook.

But - if you do, you have to make sure that all those student landings, which have the exact same regulatory significance as the landings you "do" sitting in seat 22B on UA 247, are entered in a way that makes them easily differentiated from the ones that count so that anyone looking at your logbook can tell the difference.

 

[N60OSU]

I don't think I would go back and change anything in your log. I would just start logging them going forward.

I also looged only those landings I actually performed. As an active instructor there are plenty of opportunities to maintain currency in the normal couse of providing instrction.

If you're worried about getting into trouble for being unable to demonstrate that you met the currency requirements prior to a given flight I wouldn't sweat it. I doubt any authority would say anything more to you than "do it from here on out."

 

[Fedora]

I can't believe this thread is even alive. Does this guy ever fly solo? 200 hours without a landing? What a maroon. If you ever want a job with the big boys, you are going to have to be PROFICIENT! If you showed up on my doorstep without showing any landings, I'd have some real questions in my mind. Are you just too cheap to buy the time or what? Do you figure you are just so good that you don't have to do any? Fly what you have to, log what you need.

 

[Fedora]

BTW, Positandhold, there IS a reaason for documenting your students landings/approaches/training maneuvers. Should he/she ever auger in, the Federalies will be all over you for documentaion. These are your private records. Be thorough, fair and honest about performance,and keep them confidential. If one of your students does something stupid and kills a bunch of folks, being able to say " I didn't see that problem" and having documentation is worth a lot. Flight instruction is serious stuff. Plese take it seriously! These guys saying you don't have to track student's landings are right from a legal standpoint, but I'd feel better being able to tell the fed's exactly what a student got while flying with me. just my thoughts on the subject.