logbook and GMT/BST

[Mike Cross]

Odd thing about JAR–FCL 1.080 is that it seems to assume that the pilot performs the same function throughout the entire flight.

[PlasticPilot]

Local time (whatever the timezone), unless the fliht involved different timezones, in which case I use UTC with a note in the remarks column.

[S-Works]

Always local time. When crossing a time zone both times are logged in the zone of the takeoff. Logging in UTC always seemed a bit pointless to me, especially in some of the places I have flown where the time difference from local to UTC is large.

[Genghis the Engineer]

I've never used anything but Zulu (a.k.a UTC or GMT).

The extract from JAR FCL-1 posted by Mike Cross seems to mandate this. Of course, JAR-FCL-1 doesn't apply to everybody - and so far as I know, not to most PPLs.

UK CAA rules do apply to PPLs and only require date, time in any aircrew capacity, and a few "specials" (night, IFR, tests, instruction - all fairly predictable stuff) but not take-off and landing times [ANO article 35 if anybody wants to look it up], but generally you know where you are with UTC - just about everything else in aviation uses it, so that would certainly be my advice to anybody recording times.

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