You don’t have to use a highlighter, but for sure tab the important pages and print out your five-year lookback.

If your resume, credentials page, and logbook tell different stories, you may have a problem.

One thing to remember about the logbook interview. It is an *interview*. They have all your paperwork. They have the fancy excel summary spreadsheets that everyone does and turns in very close to the top of one of the requested stacks. They will ask you all these questions anyway. Know the answers, like hourly totals for each of the last five years.

One question I got I said I needed to look on my summary sheet. Had to pull it off the top of a very messy pile of all my stacks. I’m quite sure this pile was very messy on purpose. And not because he was reading any of it.

A note to former mil guys: ignore all this talk about tabbing your logbook. My interview instructions specifically said for USAF guys not to do it. So if the thought of dusting off your flight records folder and getting a calculator makes your head hurt, don’t sweat it. As long as the instructions still say that...

I would print a excel sheet for him/her and one for yourself too so you can reference it.

They will ask you a time you probably don’t have on you (on purpose) I believe to see if you panic or what your process is. Mine for instance was dual given as a check airman.

Many thanks for the tips. I already have much of that set up in excel already. Tabbing the important events I hadn't thought of though. Seems fairly straightforward, until the wild card question comes. Thoughts on bringing a laptop to this? Or would that look bad?

They asked me this as well, actually. I told them I didn't denote it in my logbook but had all the logbook sheets from the aircraft when I acted as Check Airman. He said to guess so I did. He asked about the nature of my check airman activities which were line checks about 15% and the rest 135.299 orals.

Is it an issue if we logged dual received and PIC at the same time? This makes the pilot credentials times different than my logbook totals, because I moved the dual received time to an SIC column. So this throws off the PIC/SIC totals on pilot credentials from logbook totals.

I had the same issue and just noted it in on PC...was never asked about it and was never a concern.

I got a couple of questions like show me where you reached 1500 turbine hours. I had tabbed that flight and my logbook had some remarks in it that helped me remember a couple of details about the flight, so I was able to flip to the correct page and actually talk about what kind of flying I was doing at the time.

SWA wants people who like flying, and remembering details about milestone flights can help show that.

Did your resume times match your logbook, specifically your PIC/SIC, or did it match the pilot credentials times?

Logbook. That is the official record. Pilot Credentials has a different way to account for the type of time for whatever reason, but dual received and PIC (when rated) is the proper way to log that time. Airline Apps has a similar issue.