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Old 10-27-2020, 11:49 AM
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Hi everyone just passed my commercial check ride today! Started this at 0 time back in April!

Anyways the DPE was somewhat grilling me (not really) about my logbook as there were multiple crossed out portions and errors I had to fix and it just didn’t look appealing. I already purchased one of those big fancy professional logbooks. If I were to redo the entire thing some 200hrs worth of flight and 50 of sim and just kept my original logbook with the signatures/remarks do you think that would be fine. Should I just not really care and just start using the new one and leave the old one with all my private to commercial type flights. I’m gonna be getting my CFI, CFII, and multi/MEI as well just wanna make this look as professional as possible for the future. I’ve learned from my mistake of not using pencil and then tracing over the pencil with pen. Thanks

Edit: i would redo the entire thing but some of the instructors that signed my book are no longer available. I also have everything backed into logten pro but there is no remarks/signatures
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Potential employers want to see clean logbooks. But you haven't logged all that much time yet so I don't thinks it's such a big deal. Moving forward I would just be more fastidious with logging your flight time. Once you start getting into professional flying I would transfer to one of the well regarded digital formats. When I present my logbooks to potential employers I have both my old paper log books (just for legal signoffs) and then have my digital logbook which is printed and bound at the local Fedex store.
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Potential employers want to see clean logbooks. But you haven't logged all that much time yet so I don't thinks it's such a big deal. Moving forward I would just be more fastidious with logging your flight time. Once you start getting into professional flying I would transfer to one of the well regarded digital formats. When I present my logbooks to potential employers I have both my old paper log books (just for legal signoffs) and then have my digital logbook which is printed and bound at the local Fedex store.
so would you recommend I transfer everything over to the new logbook minus the signoffs and keep the old one just for the signoffs/endorsements?
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My $.02 isn’t worth much, but I think you’re better off investing time in going digital. Keep logging in the paper book too, because redundancy is important.

I wouldn’t re-do another paper one, just me.
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so would you recommend I transfer everything over to the new logbook minus the signoffs and keep the old one just for the signoffs/endorsements?
I would keep utilizing the paper logbooks until you are done with all of your training (since you'll still have plenty of signatures to collect). Once you have your first real pilot job, be it CFI or otherwise, I would transition to a digital logbook (obviously at that point, you would transfer all of your previous flights). Then keep the paper logs for the legal signatures that you already have, and the few signatures might get moving forward.
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What he says ^^^
In addition start with the electronic logbook now, like today.
Its tedious mind numbing to transfer your flights.
Set a goal of transferring a fixed number a day, like 10.
Once you’re done you maintain both paper and electronic till you’re done with your ATP.
Future employers don’t sign logbooks and maintain electronic records.
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Originally Posted by TiredSoul View Post
What he says ^^^
In addition start with the electronic logbook now, like today.
Its tedious mind numbing to transfer your flights.
Set a goal of transferring a fixed number a day, like 10.
Once you’re done you maintain both paper and electronic till you’re done with your ATP.
Future employers don’t sign logbooks and maintain electronic records.
I have all my flights in logten as well as my old logbook it was definitely a time consuming process to make sure everything matched perfectly
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I’ll also put a vote in the box for starting your electronic log immediately and continuing to also keep paper logs through training. When I finally decided to make the plunge to an electronic logbook I had about 15 years of flying to transfer. It was mind numbing and finger cramping. The earlier you make the transfer the better. You don’t have too much flying to transfer to electronic, so it won’t be to bad. But, pro tip: As you go through the entry process stop at the end of each logbook page and verify that the totals in your electronic logbook transfers equal the totals in your paper log. The only thing that is worse than doing the transfer itself is getting about two years of flying transferred and realize that your totals are off by four tenths of an hour. The game of “find the error(s)” is a PIA.

As others have said. Once you’re finished with training and have a job you can choose to stop logging in the paper log if you wish. Just keep it for the signatures and endorsements. I also copied all my endorsements and have them all in the back of my printed and bound electronic log. Personally, I still keep both electronic AND paper logs. Airline flying is leg by leg in my electronic log and then I log all the totals of airline flying for the month on a single line of my paper log. Each flight of GA flying still gets its own line in both my electronic and paper log. So, lots of redundancy for me, but I’m weird.
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I still do paper, I leave electronic to my employer.
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