Originally Posted by
Wensleydale
Is it not the case, that log books are an official record and are the property of the MOD and not of the individual who is just the custodian? (Serious question).
indeed, confirmed in the Kew link posted by innominate:-
These records, known as 'flying log books', are declared by the Regulations to be official documents but the compilers are allowed, on ceasing to be employed and after all official action has been taken, to claim their log books.
but then a completed Leave Pass would be an Official Document wouldn't it? The Pilots (or other Aircrew) Flying Log Book is not even a Restricted Document, and the fact that we all have our own ones points to the clear implication that Official Record or no, it can stay with its subject aircrew on leaving. As the AM/MOD offered its shelf loads of them to anyone who had a reasonable claim (ie NoK), I still don't understand why it ended up with so many of them in the first place.
Franek,
If you cry for log books, I can assure you that much more important historical stuff was dumped somewhere at the period.
in the many offences of the MOD and those who worked for it to be taken into account, burning Logbooks is no doubt the equivalent of being charged with failing to keep one's inoculations up to date. Presumably it didn't cost lives and endanger
many others, whereas pulping the Airworthiness Regulations and sacking those who refused to suborn them did....