Originally Posted by
canuckav
In regards to logbooks for the interview:
I have old fashioned logbooks. No digital programs. I've been at my current company for many years now, and they track my flights and send me an Excel spreadsheet once a month with all the information.
For the past few years, I've been taking the cumulative totals from the spreadsheets and make one entry per month in my logbook. So each of the previous five log page represents one calendar year and has twelve entries based off the spreadsheets.
Will this be viewed poorly in the interview? Should I start a new book and enter the past five years of individual entries?
Thank you for your time!
In my opinion I think you'll be fine as long as whatever you have is neat and consistent. At the time of my interview(s) over 8500+ hrs in all paper logs I had swapped back and forth between logging flights in tenths vs hrs/mins, then back to tenths (not uber consistent I suppose). Only logged a daily block total, stopped logging tail numbers years ago, really never logged actual IMC time the last 15 years or so. I admit it, I got relatively lazy over the last decade+ in wanting to keep up with a crazy detailed logbook. No one remotely cared and said my logbooks looked really nice. What I did have was neat and tidy though. I got the job along with the guy who logged every leg/tail number/minute of IMC time.