Pilotforhire

QUOTE=OnTheMeridian;3428502]I'm very curious because there's a story here that might be interesting to hear. How was your logbook stolen? Was it in a suitcase that got taken? In a car that was stolen?

Not making any insinuations. Just genuinely curious. You don't often hear about a logbook being stolen. It's not a typical target for thieves (unless the pages are real gold!).
What was up with that?[/QUOTE]

Was stolen out of my car when I went for training at my company. They stole the logbook and other things, police report filed but doubt anything will come of it. Hard lesson learned though

AirBear

Very rare. I was there 12 years and maybe had 5-6 smokers. It frequently required a professional cleaning to get rid of the smell. Persons like my wife who has asthma can have it triggered by the left over odors.

rickair7777

I know two guys this happened to. One lost ALL of his certs, passport, etc during legacy new-hire training. Fun times.

1. Keep copies of all logbook pages with CFI sigs and endorsements (don't strictly need to do that for pages that you can rebuild from your e-logbook without other people's signatures).
2. Don't ever let the logbook out of your sight unless it's in a fireproof safe. Worst case I guess you could keep it in a hotel safe.
3. You don't need your logbook for airline training, so leave it at home, in your fireproof safe (you can get one at home depot, and bolt it to your floor).

Leaving it in your car is guaranteed to get it stolen. If they see a flight bag, they assume something valuable like a latop. If they see the logbook itself they assume it's an accountants book, full of bank accounts, checks, etc.

OnTheMeridian

A lot of good advice there.

To add to it, although not necessarily centered on training, every time I'm scheduled to leave the country I take pictures of my passport and vaccine cards. Then I email those pictures to myself. If I lose my passport I can at least pull up the pictures on my phone. If my phone battery dies, or it gets stolen, I have emails of the pictures I can access from any computer. It's better than nothing.

StillHope

It definitely happens. I had my flight bag stolen from a hotel a year ago. At the time, I was basically living out of hotels on my 12 days off a month because of the 16 day rotations a month I was doing. Thankfully, the bag only had my first logbook (only had my first 300-400 hours in it). I was carrying it around because I was in the process of transferring all the time over to ForeFlight e-logbook. Unfortunately, they got my Bose headset, passport, pilot certs, medical, company iPad, personal iPad, personal MacBook, jewelry, cash and many other things. Police report filed and not a peep since on any of it.

Similar to the OP, I was wondering if not having my first logbook that had my first 300-400 hours was going to be an issue? I have over 3100 TT now with well over the minimums documented in the remaining logbook.

Lesson learned. I have cloud and local backups of scanned copies of my remaining logbook as well as had it all transferred into ForeFlight.

ProfessionalSN

The only thing I brought to the interview was my ForFlight logbook printed and bound. Someone goes through the logbook separate from the interviews. Verifying minimum requirements and nothing suspect. No one asked or looked at my logbook again. You don't need any logbook for flight safety either unless you're taking an ATP ride. I have my originals at home but never had to supply them.

Ihavenoidea

For those hired in June any idea how long the wait is to start class?

v1rotatay

July 11th was earliest otherwise I believe middle of August and Middle of September. So looks like once a month. No clue how many were hired in our expo. All my group and sim partner got the call.

Ihavenoidea

awesome thank you!

v1rotatay

Good luck!