Rejected Take-Off and Flight Time

[Lead Balloon]

This is why Australia will never send a person to the moon.

Correct (sadly). Logbook rules are merely one example of the utter overkill that is the Australian aviation regulatory regime.

In the USA, FAR 61.51 only requires the recording of (1) training and aeronautical experience used to meet the requirements for a certificate, rating, or flight review of Part 61, and (2) the aeronautical experience required for meeting the flight experience requirements of Part 61.

Accordingly, in the USA, you don’t have to log ordinary, run-of-the-mill jollies. But you log the occasional flight to show, for example, that you’ve done 3 take offs and landings within the 90 days previous to today’s flight, to meet the recency requirements to carry passengers today, per FAR 61.57.

In Australia, you are of course a criminal if you fail to record each and every flight. And you’re also a criminal if you record in your logbook, as flight time, a period that never included a period in which the aircraft became airborne. It’s ‘safer’ this way.

(Time ‘on duty’ is a related but different concept than ‘flight time’.)