I once worked with a chap who was meticulous with his paperwork. He would sign the MR without fail when he started flying and fill in his logbook everyday when he got home.
He was doing his CP interview when they (CASA) started to check his logbook against the MR's, they found major discrepencies in the records. He was shocked, they were getting all excited because of the great service to aviation safety they were conducting, having caught him out.
He was perplexed at the discrepencies and decided to cross reference to the spraying records, (ag pilot) to discover that during the night season he was signing the MR when he started his shift e.g. 10pm 1 Jan and filling his logbook when he finished his shift the next day on 2 Jan. Another source of discrepency is this; when signing the MR you are only certifying that you have conducted a daily inspection on the aircraft, in fact any pilot endorsed on type, LAME licenced on type or AME with MA on type can conduct the daily inspection and sign the MR certifying this. So if you finish for the day and another pilot flies the same aircraft that day, they are not required to sign the MR as the DAILY inspection has already been conducted and certified in the MR. You are NOT certifying a preflight.
Of course the over-zealous inspectors were none too happy when thier great fraud discovery turned out to be nothing.
I have also worked with people who logged a lot more than they flew. It always catches up. Firstly they give the impression of being of a very low standard for their 'experience' and eventually when it comes out what they are doing, it costs them any bit of cred they had left.
