One person's opinion
Logbook review by SWA interviewers are looking for specific things in my opinion and they are looking for these in the most efficient & easiest format to understand. With that in mind what are they looking for:
1. PIC time
2. IP/CFI time
3. Total time
Duh!!! Of course but the key is how to make it simple & easy to understand. My suggestion from what you described as a pretty typical dilemma. Assuming you have the computer printouts from company flying either the last logbook you had or a new one & to transfer either month by month or year by year flying total onto one page of the logbook at a time. Draw a line diagonally across it & put the proper inclusive dates on it. Put the month/year totals at the bottom of the page & then have page at the end show the totals.
Along with this have your printouts that you used for the basis of the hours stapled together with "yellow stickies" on significant points (i.e. 1000 hr increment points, upgrade point, etc) If you can transfer all of this data onto a one page spreadsheet as a good summary sheet & then make sure all of the info jives with each other. I am assuming all the times in your little read book coincides with the company time so there would be no need to bring those if you transfer everything to the "normal" logbook.
"Why not just use the red/blue logbooks that many folks use?" Go right ahead & bring those to the interview. I have no imperical data that would say this isn't an approved option but something tells me I'd prefer it my way. Again just one person's opinion. Logbook reviews can trip folks up & has in the past since that procedure has changed for SWA. In the past they paid someone to do just that. To save money all interviewers are now "trained" & the more organized & easier you have your info spelled out for the interviewer, the less time he has to ask questions & search for the answers he's looking for, the more time he/she can spend talking to you & getting to know you. Good luck,
