Calm down Herbert.
The odds are that Shiny_Pants, who simply seems to me to be asking a legimitate question very sensibly, also has/is/will ask his instructor - but possibly a different set of words on here will help him to understand the answer a bit better.
There have been numerous logbook threads on Pprune, many have received RTFM responses, but this is the first I've seen answered along the lines of "don't ask us, none of us are to be trusted".
I thought that aa190's answer was very clear and correct myself.
G