Logbooks

[Brasilia Flyer]

Just catching up on my logbook. Just curious. . . Do you guys enter by the leg, the day, the trip, the month, or the year?

Anyone know what the majors, SWA, or Fedex perfer?

I need to figure out an efficient system.

 

[Alchemy]

Incompleteness if frowned upon in general. Unless the tail number chagnes, I make a single multi-leg entry for each day, listing each airport in the departure and destination columns using small print. If the tail number changes I go ahead and move to the next line.

 

[Ben Franklin]

Format is probably not important to the big picture.

However, your future employers want to see a clean, oraganized and neat logbook that contains the details of your career. you should find the time to put a sticky next to each entry where there is a checkride or other aviation milestone in your logbook.

Personally, I have done one-leg-one-line for the past 16 years and this has worked out nicely on interview day.

Sincerely,

B. Franklin

 

[Alchemy]

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[Grassstrippilot]

About a year ago I started doing it by the day. I just got tired of it taking hours to catch up and burning through those Jepp logbooks in no time at all. Regardless of changing aircraft or destinations, I log one line for one day. All tail numbers flown in small print, starting and ending cities in the to/from spaces, and all cities in between in the remarks section.

I've had interviews at both airline and non-airline jobs since and no one seems to really care. Let's face it, by the time you're ready to move on and have several thousand hours, as long as it is neat and you can follow it, they really don't care.

 

[blueridge71]

I enter each airplane I fly that day.

 

[Brasilia Flyer]

How about you guys with logbook pro. If you keep an electronic log book, do you keep the paper one as well? How about when you convert over. Is it acceptable to start with where your paper book leaves off? I guess I'm just weighing my options before I start logging a years worth of trips.

 

[DrewBlows]

I log a day at a time and start a new line when I change Captains or airplanes. I am about to finish a logbook (I already have, just haven't been motivated to update it) and am strongly considering going all electronic. I keep an electronic backup now so it wouldn't be a real big deal switching over. I'm really tired of of updating my logbook by hand and every mistake I make drives me crazy. Electronic is clean and neat and any mistakes I make can be fixed without a strike-through-and-initial.

 

[DrewBlows]

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I don't know if this is you or someone else, but an emb-145xl is not a complex aircraft as it has no adjustable pitch propellor. So in this case it is a complete logbook, but not correct (not that anyone gives a rat's ass about complex time).

 

[CheapFlyer]

I log day by day.

Why do you guys write a new line when you have a plane change? I just use the tail number of the first aircraft I fly that day.

Assuming the type/model of aircraft is the same why would someone care what the tail numbers are for each and every leg?

-CF

 

[Cappy]

After I hit the 5000 hour mark I started logging it monthly. Per FAR's you only need to be specific with regard to acft type and x-country time if you are going for an additional certificate requiring the time noted in detail.

Let's face it, how many LGA, EWR, SFO and ORD flights can you list before the interviewer gets the point? I log monthly and it's never been commented on by anyone during an interview nor has it resulted in a NO. Just make sure that whatever you do it adds up. I use PIC + SIC + student time (pre-private) as my Total.

I think Logbook Pro is nice and I might switch as the second Jepp book is almost full.

Mike

 

[Alchemy]

I don't know if this is you or someone else, but an emb-145xl is not a complex aircraft as it has no adjustable pitch propellor. So in this case it is a complete logbook, but not correct (not that anyone gives a rat's ass about complex time).

I knew someone was going to bring that up.

Yeah I know, unless you count compressor variable geometry as an adjustable pitch propellor (and no one does). I'm probably just going to delete that entire column, as it doesn't exist in my paper logbook anyway, and like you said, no one gives a rats @ss.

 

[RCA]

Ive always wondered about my book. I do the one day one line thing. My question, I round all the times to the half hour. For isntance 1:14 block would be 1 hour 1:26 would be 1.5 I think either, like most have said an interviewer wont give a sh!t, or think Im trying to pad my times. Thoughts?

 

[DrewBlows]

Ive always wondered about my book. I do the one day one line thing. My question, I round all the times to the half hour. For isntance 1:14 block would be 1 hour 1:26 would be 1.5 I think either, like most have said an interviewer wont give a sh!t, or think Im trying to pad my times. Thoughts?

It should even out over time, but it probably looks a little funny. I think it might pique the interest of a saavy interviewer, but I don't know if they would care. Why do you do this anyway?

 

[PA44Jockey]

Are most of you logging hobbs times or OUT and IN times?

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Are most of you logging hobbs times or OUT and IN times?

I have had a hard time finding the hobbs meter. I'll keep lookin' though.