Logging Time: Each leg?

[Terry Hunter]

One day at a time... I write multiple ship no's in the A/C no, but sometimes, only the first A/C number of that day. I also write the name of the other pilot in the remarks section, and ask him/her to sign it. Just kidding.

 

[alchemyst6]

I must be the oddball here. I do one entry per month in my master logbook. The monthly times are backed up with a leg-by-leg printout from ADPL and logbook pro. I sure hope I'm not screwing myself in the future here...

 

[Beaufighter]

I do it the long & painful way...each & every leg with the "N" number & A/C Serial Number. If anything, it is fun to look back on the flight history. It also made quite a positive impression at my last interview.

 

[Way2Broke]

I log every leg, because I am trying to fill up my first log book (one of those thick ones) so I can put it in safe keeping. After it is full I will change to the daily/aircraft change method.

 

[Muff-N-Man]

I do one entry per day. I use either the first a/c I flew, or the one I flew most that day (the rest are in my little black book if I need to know that). To/from is the city I started in and the one I RON. In the remarks, I list the individual flight numbers with the city pairs, and the unfortunate FO.

I just interviewed at Delta, and they didn't have a problem with it. He spent a good bit of time in there looking at how many Christmasses I'd flown.

 

[CA1900]

i log by day, using the first flight number of the day as the ident. i preffer using the flight number vs ship number incase there is a pay/other issue later.

If you still have access to records that show the aircraft number, I'd get them and put them in. What you're logging right now does not meet the logbook requirements of FAR 61.51:


(a) Training time and aeronautical experience. Each person must document and record the following time in a manner acceptable to the Administrator:
(1) Training and aeronautical experience used to meet the requirements for a certificate, rating, or flight review of this part.
(2) The aeronautical experience required for meeting the recent flight experience requirements of this part.
(b) Logbook entries. For the purposes of meeting the requirements of paragraph (a) of this section, each person must enter the following information for each flight or lesson logged:
(1) General --
(i) Date.
(ii) Total flight time or lesson time.
(iii) Location where the aircraft departed and arrived, or for lessons in a flight simulator or flight training device, the location where the lesson occurred.
(iv) Type and identification of aircraft, flight simulator, or flight training device, as appropriate.







So if you plan on using anything in that logbook to document experience for another certificate or rating, or even to demonstrate that you're current, it needs to include the aircraft identifier. I'd save the flight number for the remarks section.

 

[rustypigeon]

I used to do it by day or a/c swap. But now that we swap every two legs of our eight leg days, I just do it by day with the first a/c of the day.