I wish that were the only difference. I realize it's tough to really understand the changes without showing you with pictures or illustrations - words just don't convey what I'm trying to describe in the mind's eye. Trust me on this, if it were as simple as you describe, nobody would even notice. The amount of writing/documentation has gone WAY up from before. Way up.

Do you most of you guys fill out the three blocks all the way across the log page - with all the aircraft data (total aircraft time, ATA number, Control number, employee number, etc), and then fill out the M.I.C. sheet in the front of the logbook (sort of a summary page in front), along with the MEL Placard that gets stuck into the inside cover of the logbook? If you do, then I guess that answers the original poster's question. Yes.

We never have. By the way, most of us don't give a rip about the pay. We worry about the very real possibility of screwing up the paperwork somewhere during this process (some little minutiae) and getting violated for it. Our company self-discloses suspected violations to protect themselves and basically put it on their employees' shoulders - "Woops, we flew X number of flights with the maintenance log improperly filled out. Crews A,B,C, D, and E flew the airplane like this and didn't catch the mistake. Here are their heads on a platter. Please don't fine us."

I'm sure the process is here to stay in its current (new) form. I'll adapt to it and take my time to be sure it's been done absolutely perfectly. I'm thinking that the company's on time performance will suffer, however.