Bottom line is the logbook is not required to be carried and nobody has been able to cite a regulation stating that it does.
I agree there is no Regulation that requires the Personal Logbook to be carried on a flight; but I wanted to point out that if an LAPL Holder, or someone Flying to the LAPL privileges contained in another Licence, were asked to prove the validity of their LAPL privileges (on a flying tour of Europe for example) they would not be able to without it; and, at worst, that might result in their not being allowed to complete their trip in a timely manner.
but, in the case of the LAPL, there is no class or type rating and validity depends upon recent experience, which is only recorded in the logbook
Of course the same can be said of any licence or rating. Validity depends on recency. The LAPL is not different then.
This is not correct. The LAPL
is different.
Take flying an SEP(Land) for example:
An ATPL, CPL or PPL will contain an SEP(L) Rating with a set expiry date. With the exception of the passenger carrying requirements, there are no experience/recency requirements at all to exercising the Rating's privileges within its two year validity. As long as they are within the Rating validity date (marked on the Licence which does have to be carried) they are legal and it is irrelevant how current/good/bad they are.
An LAPL for SEP(Land) contains no Rating. It permits, by itself, to fly an SEP(L). The LAPL is valid for life
BUT contains experience requirements that must have been met in the two years prior to
each and every flight in which the pilot exercises those privileges (
Ref: Part-FCL.140.A LAPL(A) - Recency requirements).