Originally Posted by
tattooguy21
The plan was never to get out so the need to track hours beyond a 6 month period to make corrections was never a problem. As such, will it be a problem, going in with just this printed log book, since it's the only real logbook I've ever had?
I'm not sure I understand what you tracked - only your semi-annual totals...? I wouldn't worry about recreating your entire flying career if you don't already have a logbook. I had 3 logbooks - 1 was filled with nothing but my military RW flying, the second was filled with my ASEL/AMEL add-ons and part 91 flying, the third I had just started and captured all my commercial flying. Each log book got successively better/cleaner. I also went back and created my entire flight time (minus flight school - just used total time for this, and a swag at dual) by year into an excel spread sheet - beginning in about '01. This took a while, but was more than worth it now for the ease of tracking, filtering, adjusting, etc. I think most Army guys are pretty poor at tracking flight time. I basically only had D/N/NVG, PIC, H/W - no CC, etc. If I knew then what I know now, I would have tracked a bit more closely per all the categories and also added a few per what's tracked on an 8710 - NT CC PIC, etc. I would have taken more time to make it look nicer - all the same pen, single line cross outs for corrections, etc. My mil log book is kind of a mess - took it on 5 deployments, some entries are in pencil (yeah, pencil - I had a habit of using a big .9mm in my kneeboard and would sometimes use that for my logbook after a flight) - but I felt more comfortable keeping it as is, along with presenting my 759/759-1 (never showed a -12), rather than recreating a logbook over a 12-year period. Bottom line is that they glanced at my RW logbook/759 for about 2 seconds, but focused on my civilian FW book where I did the usual tabbing of checkrides, etc. Sometimes that was even glossed over. I interviewed at PSA last year prior to even doing my AMEL add-on and was offered a class date. I had to point out to the CA and HR rep that I did not yet have my Comm AMEL ticket - very thorough logbook review
Originally Posted by
Taco280AI
but not sure if we're doing it the way airlines would like to see (in addition to a -12 printout and 759).
Feel free to PM if you'd like. Lots of little things I can share over a phone call if you can't find someone local.