Bose,
The examiners seem to have a "flavour of the month" which they specifically look for. Right now, the flavour of the month is the pre-flight planning - including Plogs, W+B, performance, etc, etc. At least, that's the case for the examiners at Bournemouth - I don't know how closely the exam centres liase with each other.
It is only within the last month or two that the CAA have asked us to create standard Plogs. Probably before too long they will have completely forgotten, and they'll have another "flavour of the month". However, this isn't the first time the subject has come up. Have a read of my CPL Diary in the Wannabes forum, and you'll see that I had to use my school's standard Plog when I did my CPL a few years ago.
As I said, if you were to join a company, you would be using the company plogs, and would not have the option of being able to write your flight planning on your map. So this seems entirely reasonable for an aspiring commercial pilot, even though it doesn't make sense for a PPL/IR.
FFF
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