Log books
Hope I've come to the right forum and you guys can help me here.
The background is, I spent a number of years as an RAF cadet and during that time I did a number of powered air experience flights (AEF), gliding AEF, a gliding scholarship and a RAF Flying scholarship of 20hrs with Tayside. (This was all 5-8 years ago now, since done a gap year and four yr degree)
My problem is that I'm looking at continuing my flying now, and more importantly have a possible interview coming up where I'll need to show what hours I have. But at the moment all those hours are in my service book which is almost falling apart (went through the wash a few times while I was a cadet!). The inside is perfectly legible but the covers are a shambles and I want to get it into something neater.
So..on to the questions..
1. From what I gather from looking through similar posts on this forum about log books, it should be ok for me to pick up a proper log book (I have a Pooleys Flying Log book sitting here in front of me) and copy all the flights into that?
2. What should I do about signatures? All the flights were signed off by instructors (or myself on solos). Is it ok just to copy the flights up without signatures into the new log book and leave it at that, since I have the originals still in my old service book should anyone need to confirm things?
3. Similarly related to the need for signatures, under the remarks column of the log book it says 'including counter-signature for P.I/S'. However I was all my training flights were recorded as PUT, surely I still need a signature from my instructor for those? (note the previous point, if I can just refer back to my service book for signatures then ignore this)
4. The most important thing for me is recording my 20hrs in C152s from the flying scholarship. However is there any worth in putting in the AEF flying? It doesn't really count to anything, it wasn't any part of the PPL training..not even sure what I would record it as as I was hardly PUT. Just some basic handling stuff while making holes in clouds, however it does amount to a good 4hrs of flying. Also my gliding time, aother 8hrs, but don't see any way I can effectively record that in the log book since its all geared to powered flights (single-engined/multi-engined columns etc).
Apologies if some of the answers are obvious and I'm missing the point somewhere along the line. Appreciate any advice you can give!