My Logbook Needs Help
I've had my private pilot certificate for the last 8 years. In those last 8 years I haven't done a ton of flying, but have a fair amount of rental check outs, local flights, bfr's etc. I've finally saved up some money to begin pursuing my instrument rating and hopefully eventually commercial/cfi. I know I need 50 hours XC for the instrument rating so I started going back through my logbook to add up my times. My logbook admittedly has some errors and there are a couple pages with some issues, which I will summarize below:
*My primary instructor marked my dual cross country flight as cross country time. While I realize it is cross country time, it was not PIC as I was a student and it wasn't a solo flight. Yet not realizing this until recently I had been adding that to my cross country total time.
*I have a couple entries that are complete except for I didn't put the date. I can't remember exactly but I'm sure it was a case where I filled it out either right after the flight or a day later, didn't know the date and meant to check but then forgot. I do have many of my flight invoices so I might be able to piece these together but if not what should I do? I'd rather not have time logged than to make up a date as I want to be as honest as I can.
*I have two full line entries that were left blank. I can attribute this to not logging a flight, then flying a subsequent flight and when going to log this I realized I hadn't logged the previous flight, so I left a blank line yet still forgot to go back and log it. If I can't find an invoice for this flight, can I leave it blank?
*I forgot to log a cross country flight that I had taken a couple years ago. I was able to find the invoice for the flight today. Can I make it the most recent entry in my logbook(but obviously put in the actual date of the flight) and make an explanation note of it in my logbook?
I do realize the irresponsibility of not being a prudent keeper of my logbook and am kicking myself for this. I have vowed to log all of my flights from now on immediately after the flight so these issues don't come up anymore. More so, I am worried that future employers would see my logbook and that it could possibly affect my potential to be hired. Has anyone dealt with issues like this in the past? Thanks for the advice!