Originally Posted by
ShyTorque
There is no legal requirement for a pilot to carry a personal log book in the aircraft, indeed it would obviously be counterproductive if lost.
The requirement is to complete one's log book "in a reasonable time".
Sadly for him, time is no longer relevant. Thus presumably AAIB will seek to find it and determine currency.
And his 'qualifications' ... Do pilots carry their Licence with them? Are the details on a database somewhere? My long-expired PPL has a stamp for "Group A: Landplanes" (Ministry of Aviation!) and my Logbook just has "Piper Colt, Day only". I doubt any of that is electronically stored, dating as it does from 1963!
I'm just curious about the missing bits of the equation, as an onlooker.