Originally Posted by
wwings
Speaking of pencil whipping log books,
I might not get much honesty on this forum, but just how prevalent is the practice?
When I sit in a new hire class at a regional, how much of the experience is real?
I've been to two different airline interviews (hired into a pool for both) and it's been my experience that my logbook was barely looked at. Captain/HR giving the interview thumbs through it (seemingly) absent-mindedly while listening to my answers to technical questions or something. As best as i recall, I was never asked questions about my time and my logbook.
Discuss!
Very hard to do in the military since you don't keep your own logbook.
Now a form of pencil whipping that is prevalent in the military is only flying a 1.0 and logging a 1.3. This is easy to see when the IP logs a 1.0 for instance and the student logs a 1.3. I've had students go back down to maintenance and changed their paperwork. Also - adding that extra flight time drives the aircraft into scheduled insepctions faster and depletes the airframe life so the Maintenance Officer will be on your butt if he catches you fat fingering. My squadron CO gets a print out of every pilot's flight time every month and goes over it with the Operations Officer; so high and low times guys get a little more scrutiny. I take it from the posts that flight schools or Part 135 operations have fairly lack procedures in place to verify actual flight time logged? Does the professional pilot just keep their own logbooks?
USMCFLYR