tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post769832894629124009..comments2024-03-13T09:47:40.487+00:00Comments on Cockpit Conversation: Logbook StrategyAviatrixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13634111275860140084noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-43090946952653570262017-04-27T21:54:02.724+00:002017-04-27T21:54:02.724+00:00Stumbled upon your blog after a really long time (...Stumbled upon your blog after a really long time (maybe eight years!!!). I have to say that this entry gives me hope. I am now some three years behind on my paper log and for some weird obsession I still think that someday I will fill it up to date (and when I do that I won't let it slip again... yeah right). I do also have electronic logbook which I try my best to keep current but it isn't the same even its nice to know what kind of approaches I tend to do on Mondays or it is very easy to find the hours when filling job applications.<br /><br />Now a short trip back on the memory lane. I remember very well when I was about ten years ago sitting in the control tower of a northern european airport waiting for the only scheduled plane of the day to arrive and while waiting I used to read your blog from the beginning. Reading your blog inspired me to give pilot career a one more shot and went on with the training. Now I am a training captain in a real airline (slightly boring... I know). I just wish I would have had a chance to fly chips and pop to somewhere where there is no centerline markings or pavement at all. Best I've got to do yet is transfer a case of beer to adjacent island with a seaplane.<br /><br />Maybe I'll catch up with your blog at the same time when I have enough time to fill up my logbook.<br /><br />Thanks Aviatrix for giving the inspiration and motivation!sydosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18170963515818054868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-27598435916529921042015-11-17T03:33:51.382+00:002015-11-17T03:33:51.382+00:00Lots of questions in the comments here, so let me ...Lots of questions in the comments here, so let me answer:<br />I know there exist electronic logbooks, and they can be coded in such a way that they are considered legal records. I'm on my third paper one, but the technology of filling it in is exactly the same as when I started, and hasn't changed since Bessie Coleman filled in hers. I am confident that people will still be able to operate the technology in the year 2100. If I had started flying with an electronic logbook it would have run on raw DOS, and then been exported as a CSV file to something running Windows 2000. When I interviewed with airlines I would have had to bring in either my battered laptop or a printout stack, instead of my pile of logbooks. One thing a stack of original paper logbooks shows in an interview is that you can keep it together, write legibly, control your pets, not set your immediate environment on fire, and avoid spilling coffee on important documents. These are all good qualities in a pilot, and a way of showing an employer that you will keep their paperwork to the required standard. If a pilot doesn't keep a good personal logbook, how can I trust her to maintain the aircraft logbook and submit her duty record in a timely fashion? So yup, "go electronic" would solve the little boxes problem, but at the cost of accessibility.<br /><br />IMC time is supposed to be logged as time actually spent in IMC but no one in their right mind records when they enter and leave it. I fill that column out occasionally, on a flight with a lot of IMC, just enough to show currency.<br /><br />I have flown for the same company all that time, so I sat upstairs by the shelf of old aircraft logbooks and just copied the flights over. I was lucky we hadn't sold a plane during that period.<br /><br />Once upon a time, before digital cameras were a consumer item, I used to scan my logbook and save the pages to CD ROMs that I believe are still in a safety deposit box. <br /><br />Aviatrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13634111275860140084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-57156030381082336962015-11-12T05:14:39.809+00:002015-11-12T05:14:39.809+00:0054 flights in, I do not have this problem. LOL. ...54 flights in, I do not have this problem. LOL. I did recently hear of a student whose logbook was eaten by the dog, so I now attempt to take photos of each page as it is finished, as this photo will find its way to the cloud from the phone.Garretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02761379104367843608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-9885730721532642552015-11-05T23:20:30.150+00:002015-11-05T23:20:30.150+00:00What were you filling it in from? As a low time P...What were you filling it in from? As a low time PPL I don't have issues with the sizing and I currently log my time in my log book after each flight. When I get home I transfer it to a google drive spreadsheet.Mark Zachariashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15222462874701314684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-32144718408266267242015-11-05T23:20:21.862+00:002015-11-05T23:20:21.862+00:00What were you filling it in from? As a low time P...What were you filling it in from? As a low time PPL I don't have issues with the sizing and I currently log my time in my log book after each flight. When I get home I transfer it to a google drive spreadsheet.Mark Zachariashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15222462874701314684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-7197015223423515562015-11-05T16:53:29.054+00:002015-11-05T16:53:29.054+00:00I'm just glad I'm not the only one that ge...I'm just glad I'm not the only one that gets three years behind on their logbook. One of these days I'll get it caught up with a fine tipped pen and filling in boxes on the diagonal.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06005868775326188013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-84276511737649557622015-11-05T16:53:24.335+00:002015-11-05T16:53:24.335+00:00Out of curiosity, when you do log IMC time how do ...Out of curiosity, when you do log IMC time how do you do it? Do you actually make notes of when you enter and leave cloud? Or do you just log all IFR time?<br /><br />I'm a casual IFR pilot, and I'm never quite sure what the right way is for me to log currency. So far I have tended to log the entire air time of any IFR flight that encounters IMC at least once.Doug Sinclairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12851123360861758493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10000144.post-39808666095689163132015-11-05T04:09:26.320+00:002015-11-05T04:09:26.320+00:00I'm not a pilot (apart from thousands of deskt...I'm not a pilot (apart from thousands of desktop sim hours over 30 years!) but I am a software developer and my strategy would be to open a spreadsheet in the 'cloud' (how appropriate!) somewhere like Google docs and fill in the numbers there, then for the sake of signatures etc. print it out...<br /><br />A quick <a href="https://www.google.com.au/search?q=spreadsheet+pilot+logbook&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=F9U6VparGca1mAXigITwAg#q=google+spreadsheet+pilot+logbook" rel="nofollow">search</a> revealed a few plausible examples like <a href="https://drive.google.com/previewtemplate?id=0AnIqPTvO8VxedEptNG1EMEJ4UUJLamxaYWpPaWNNRUE&mode=public&urp=https://www.google.com.au&pli=1&ddrp=1#" rel="nofollow">this</a>....<br /><br />(This makes me wish I'd done it for my simulator time now... sure it's only a sim but 'flying' around the world in Beech Baron fiddling with fuel mix and prop pitch in a 'headwind' over the 'Atlantic' is real geek fun!)<br />Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09679806597764678447noreply@blogger.com