Originally Posted by
gringo
Fine advice if you're at your career destination, or you've already got thousands of hours and either can't import yourself or won't pay someone to do it, but for anyone just starting off in their career, this is really bad advice.
No, it really isn't.
It's really not that difficult, especially if the applicant doesn't have much experience to begin with, to categorize the flight time. Even in a paper logbook, I can tell you how much time I have in this type or that, because I keep track of it. It's really not that hard. How do you suppose so many tens of thousands of us managed before computer logbooks came along?
My logs have pictures of aircraft I've flown in the ends, as well as all my medical certificates glued in place in order, along with government carding, etc. Former business cards are there, some momentos. They've become ice breakers and points of conversation in interviews many times, and have proven quite useful.