Logging flights

[a&p cfiguy]

How does everyone out there log their flights? Each leg, a few legs at once, the whole day...? Lets say you flew 8 short legs in one day, would you make eight seperate entries on 8 seperate lines? I heard some people say it looks more professional if you do it that way, but I think I'd get carple tunnel.

What about logbook pro? I've been using it for quite a while now. I bought it when I had about 1200 hours and spent a long, long, long, long time entering all my previous flights in. I also have one of those big Jepp logbooks which I still use. What I do is throughout the month I enter all my flights into my PDA, which eventally gets uploaded into my home computer, then at the end of the month, I handwrite everything into Jepp logbook. Is this extra step unnecessary? I would rather take in the Jepp logbook to an interview, and maybe print out a few reports from logbook pro. For some reason, I'm not too fond of printing out my logbook from logbook pro. I don't know why. What do some of you logbook pro users out there do? I absolutly love the program, but I also like my tradional logbook.

 

[Rick1128]

I use aerolog pro, personally. But many companies prefer to see the old fashion type logbook. But after a certain point no one seems to ask to see it any more.

When I was keeping a standard logbook, I kept a record of each leg. Mostly because I saw a fellow pilot get his butt out of trouble because he had a record to prove he did not fly a particular aircraft. Since the logbook is an official record, the FAA accepted it as proof that he did not fly a particular flight into an airport where they had a report on that aircraft. Plus I would make notes of other crewmembers names, passenger count and other notes of interest. Things that come in handy when I write my biography.

 

[Trogdor]

Here is my system:

I start a new line any time I switch Captains or tail numbers, and obviously for every new day. Other than that, for the route of flight I put where I started and ended for the day, with that cap or tail. Then in the remarks section, I put the flight number(s), the entire route of flight, the CA's name, and any approach information. That's it.

 

[WMUSIGPI]

With that thinking I'd be making a new line for every other leg anyway. Seems like we are always having plane and crew swaps.

I just make an entry for every leg in a paper logbook. The bonus to that is it avoids rounding errors better. It's the way I have been doing it for 3 years of instructing and 2 years of commercial flying.

 

[NCFlyer]

1 line per day, regardless of number of legs or A/C.

 

[Wesb737fo]

I go with the one line per day also. My record was twelve legs (B-1900...of course)

 

[Knob]

What the last two entries said- 1 line per day! I met a CA once with 6 logbooks! He logged each flt sep. lines! Too much work for me.

 

[Caveman]

"I start a new line any time I switch Captains or tail numbers, and obviously for every new day. Other than that, for the route of flight I put where I started and ended for the day, with that cap or tail"

Ditto.

 

[Nindiri]

Every leg. It's only a little more work and worth the effort.

 

[mrnolmts]

One line per month, one year per page for me. Too tiresome to log every leg or day. If I flew more than one type of A/C I'd log a separate line for each A/C type per month.