How do you log your flights?
 

In the GA/CFI days it was simple.. Log each leg.

At the airlines, do you log the entire day of flying on 1 line or perhaps an entire trip on one line?

Also very tempted to go electronic only. As of now I keep both, but duplicating it is a little bit of a pain. Curious of what employers are OK/Not OK with?

Thanks

When hand writing my logbook I was logging by tail number. So one line might have 4 legs for the day while the next would have one leg. That got to be messy when I went to my electronic logbook. I just went back to logging each leg. I’d just copy the times over and LogTen Pro does the rest.


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I log by tailnumber like the post above, and electronic only.

Regional jet flying I did as above. Logged tail numbers and days. So a different day or different tail number was a different line. No one at a legacy, LCC or ACMI interview cared. Just make it legal and legible.

Each leg is the standard way.
Shortcuts of logging entire days by tail are just lazy, and a few HR depts notice, but won’t say anything.
Once you’re at your destination job of choice log however you like.
My flights are all logged leg by leg going back to 1983. I’ve only interviewed once and not gotten the job, every other time has been a CJO. always always always put your best foot forward, just like you wear a suit, log professionally.

Totally electronic since 2000, been a logbookpro and APDL user since day one. Best programs out there, although they’ve become a tad pricey on the APDL side.... but it’s doing pay, per diem, commute flight lookup, weather, delays, & FTDT in addition to logging.

On the CRJ just take the acars printed pdc and put your oooi and block times on the back, and whatever other deets you want record of. Throw them in your bag and you can take transfer it easily into whatever format you like. I keep the slips in a file cabinet in case my elog is ever corrupted. A years worth of slips does not take up much real estate.

Logging by tail/day was fine back in the old days, there's no FAR that specifies HOW to log time, only WHAT needs to be logged and for what purposes. A lot of folks including me did it that way.

But most folks today will simply download the data from their company system, and that will be leg-by-leg so you might as well do it that way to be consistent.

Majors didn't seem to care that I had a few years of logging by tail in my early regional days.

Download the CSV spreadsheet after each trip. Upload it to your online logbook of choice. Leg by leg, automatically calculates night time, keeps track of currency, destinations, etc. Easy as pie.

Any idea if this can be done using an iPad for LogTen Pro? Or does it have to be done on the Mac?

No one cared. I have 5 professional logbooks as it is, and that is with some 1 line entries such as my one year+ in a combat zone. Probably would have been 10 logbooks if I didn't do it that way.