Logbook hours
Join Date: May 2001
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No one seems to have pointed out that the requirements for logging time (be in it decimals or minutes, either is fine) are different for the airframe/engine/prop and the pilot. The pilot requirements have already been stated, but for the mechanics, the times required are take off to touch down. Consequently you can quite legally have more 'personal' time logged than you pay for. None of this means that you should fiddle your figures for the benefit of your hours/wallet, or the detriment of the club, but anything over 10 or 15 minutes difference between the two would raise my eyebrows if I was in a position to be checking
Join Date: Jul 2002
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You're a hard man Beagle! Are you predjudiced against those of us who learned in the states 
(as much as I dislike it though, we have become decimalised here in the UK).
I know I do not record my times to the letter of the law, if anything i've lost a few hours or so by logging it as I am billed. ie on the Hobbs in the US and take off to landing plus ten at an international airport in the UK, but if my log book is ever audited, my times will tie up with records for the aircraft in question at the appropriate FBO/FTO so at least I am in keeping with the spirit of the law.
I could name a few pilots who have gained themselves a few extra hours in their log books purely by sitting in sequence or at the holding point due to heavy traffic.
Maybe it's more fool me for not doing the same.
(as much as I dislike it though, we have become decimalised here in the UK). I know I do not record my times to the letter of the law, if anything i've lost a few hours or so by logging it as I am billed. ie on the Hobbs in the US and take off to landing plus ten at an international airport in the UK, but if my log book is ever audited, my times will tie up with records for the aircraft in question at the appropriate FBO/FTO so at least I am in keeping with the spirit of the law.
I could name a few pilots who have gained themselves a few extra hours in their log books purely by sitting in sequence or at the holding point due to heavy traffic.
Maybe it's more fool me for not doing the same.
