Peeps,
I started my first Airline Job recently and now after my first few weeks of line training, I'm ready to start making entries in a new JAR-FCL Logbook.
Over the last few weeks I've asked Skippers and FO's at my Airline as well as colleagues in various other Airlines about how they maintain Logbooks. The general lowdown is that this isn't on many peoples lists of priorities.
That's fair enough! With electronic records and the voyage reports that are available, we have records that can be transposed to a Logbook at any time. I haven't seen anybody getting Logbooks out in the crewroom or on the flightdeck. With all the paperwork and a desire for us to get home after a shift, Logbooks don't come into the equation.
Having spoken to someone at the authorities though, they would ideally like the PIC under supervision (ie the PF sectors) to be signed by the PIC in the remarks column. This is understandable as it isn't flagged on the voyage reports and the breakdown of the ATPL requires so many hours PIC/US. Co Pilot time is simply backed up by the Voyage report, as this is defintely the minimum that you would be doing.
The person I spoke to wasn't clear cut though and said 'try' to get some signatures. I've also heard of peeps just getting the base captain to do a monthly sign off.
What's the word on the street peeps? I doubt many of us go around the crewroom harassing skippers for Logbook signatures and I'm sure everyone gets the ATPL once they've clocked up the hours. How does it work?
Cheers
