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Old 30th Oct 2001, 22:08
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Low_and_Slow
 
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Actually, individual flights are accounted for in decimals, but each page is totalled up in hours and minutes....perhaps I was not listening in school on that first day?
Forgive me if this comes off as critical:

this seems a bit backwards--the problem with logging decimal is the inaccuracy when converting from clock time*. The problem with using minutes is that they are harder to add and more subject to errors in the adding.

It seems you've got the worst of both and introduce two possible errors-one on the conversion to decimal and one on the conversion back. Once the hours are in decimal I see no reason to convert back to minutes-after all there are no requirements that hinge on the number of minures you have ["you need 3 hours and 11 minutes of night flying to get this rating"]. All requirements that I know of are in terms of whole hours, so might as well keep it in decimal.

As to logging entirely in minures--that makes sense to me too.


*not a problem here in the states where we log hobbs time

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