Originally Posted by
flyvne1971
I don't not believe what you are saying but a while back on another thread this subject came up and they all made it perfectly clear that I needed to keep both a traditional and electronic log book that they would print out and sign. I mentioned that I thought it was stupid and a wast of time to keep your flight time in two different forms. But they stood by what they were saying.
I don't know what to do now. Why can't this crap be clear.
This guy cracks me up. Its not like there is one TOTALLY correct way to log your time and the rest are all wrong and you FAIL if you do it any other way! Have you ever actually sat and thought about whether or not anyone actually, truly and accurately verifies your times? And even if they wanted to go through it with a fine-toothed comb and double-check every column, how difficult it would it be for anyone to verify instrument time? Approaches? Every tail number you've ever flown? Night time? It would be an agonizing and ultimately pointless process. There are really only 2 things I look for when adding my logbook: Day + Night = Total and Single + Multi = Total. Thats it. Sure, I put it all in there so I can fill in those boxes at resume time but the reality is NOBODY'S logbook is 100% true and accurate. How many of us put down .1 instrument when you fly through a cloud? I know I do. Shot an approach in actual? That's .3. Was it dark when I took off and when I landed? Then its night . Was it dark for half the flight and light for half? Then half of the block time was night (whats civil twilight?).
This subject comes up every couple months. And every time its the same questions, the same methods and the same arguments. In the end, as long as you have a neat, reasonably accurate accounting of your time which jives with what interviewers expect and doesn't contain any blatant out and out falsifications, you'll be fine. Quit loosing sleep over "Oh noooo!!! How should I log this? Should I write it on the back of my hand? Will a printout work? What if they want a big brown Jepp logbook with the green pages?" Use your head and do what makes sense.
For the record, I print out a pairing when I start a trip and keep track of my out and in times (for duty purposes and pay calculation), landings, approaches, night, instrument time and any notes right on the little printout that fits in my shirt pocket. Then when I get home, I toss it in a stack on my night stand. When the stack gets too big and starts falling off the edge of the night stand I transfer the info into a standard commercial Jepp logbook (the brown one with the green pages) and put the written-on, coffee-stained pairings in an envelope for each year. That envelope gets shoved in a closet and that's the end of that.