Re: CPL/IR licence application rejected (no signatures in logbook)
I've never signed a student pilot's logbook. The only time I'm aware of, as an instructor, that I need to sign a logbook is if the flight is the bi-annual 1-hour-with-an-instructor flight for revalidating the SEP rating.
However, if you log P1US, the commander of the aircraft (i.e. the examiner for a successful skills test) must sign your logbook. And when applying for any license, rating, etc, you should get your school to stamp your logbook, and the CFI to sign it, to confirm that the hours are correct.
As for logging club checkouts, when I do checkouts I log P1 and the person doing the checkout logs PUT. This is not because I am hour-building (even if I was hour-building, the small number of hours of checkouts I do would make negligable difference). It's because I am Captain of the aircraft. If I am unhappy with the way the person sitting next to me is handling the aircraft, as Captain I have the legal right to take the controls from him. On the other hand, if he logs P1 I don't have that legal right any more.
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