Logging Glider time

[cougar6903]

Do ya'll log glider time in your airplane logbook or do you keep a second book for the glider time only?

 

[avbug]

You can log it. You should log it.

Five aircraft category ratings may be placed on your pilot certificate; you may log time in any of them. They are Airplane, Rotorcraft, Glider, Lighter-than-air, Powered-lift.

Remember that the only time you must log is that time used to show recency of flight experience, or time credited toward any certificate, rating, or operating privilege. You don't need to log any other flying, but you really should.

To meet the recency of experience requirements of 14 CFR 61.57(a)(1)(ii), you must log the landings in the same category and class. If you want to be current in a glider, then log your glider time. If you want to be current in an airplane, then log the airplane time.

I suspect that's not so much what you're asking, than how the time will look in your logbook. In other words, I'm guessing you want to know if it looks bad to have glider time in your logs...weather or not it appears that you're padding your logbook. Is that right?

In short, no, there's absolutely nothing wrong with having glider time in your logbook. I do. It shows diverse experience, and there are things you'll learn flying a sailplane that you won't learn anywhere else...these things enhance your overall skill and knowledge base, and make you a better pilot (if you let them).

Log the time. You need to do so to show recency of flight experience, anyway. All it does is show that you've put forth greater effort at being a better pilot, and for that, you're to be commended.

 

[LR60BOY]

I keep a seperate column in my book for my glider time. All of my flying is kept in one logbook. I highly recommend keeping track of your total number of flights. When I was CFI'ing in gliders I was racking up flights and not counting them. When it came time to fill out the next 8710 I had to go back and count them all.

Just a thought............

 

[CDVdriver]

Keep it all in the same logbook.
Separate column.
Saved me a bunch of money for my commercial.

 

[ShawnC]

This is just me.

I log every flight in a glider logbook seperately and at the end of the day I put a single entry in my master logbook.

 

[bobbysamd]

Glider time

The last time I was behind the controls of an aircraft was 10 1/2 years ago in a glider. My friend, who is a glider instructor, took me. He logged the time in a separate glider logbook, but also put it in my regular logbook.

My first instructor told me to log every flight. Every flight counts. The time all counts. Log the time.

 

[whatwasthat?]

Several pilots I know, me included log it in a separate book. That way you can scribble it down before your adrenaline addled brain forgets. Plus you can keep it in the plane, your car, whatever and not worry about it. Maybe it's just me but my hand is alot less steady after a good glide (weeeeeeeee!) and the assorted apres-activities, so this way I'm not so concerned about neatness.