Originally Posted by
stbloc
I just wrote the name of the student I flew with in the remarks section. Never had a problem. I don't think their is anyway they could posiblt verify if you gave instruction 10 years ago on that specific flight. With all the free lancing flight instruction and the out of business FBO's they could never verify the validity of my log book. Has anyone actually had an airline go back to verify certain flights that were not check rides?
I started flying in the late seventies, and the validity of any type of logbook, pilot or otherwise was difficult to determine without some underlining documentation from somewhere. Pilot logbooks like any other logbook are filled out based on the honor system, it really doesn't become a question mark until a person has all this time in their logbooks, and have trouble doing something simple as holding the aircraft's heading, speed, and altitude while dealing with a component failure of some sort.
A pilot's flying skills tells me more about their experience than their logbooks.