Photocopy your logbook!
 

My BLUE licence arrived today! (along with my logbook) :)

Delivered by an old woman who found it the other day DUMPED by FEDEX at the back of her house!! Wrong house, wrong street, no signature…just dumped by her back door!:mad:

And the CAA actually had the cheek to phone me after I submitted everything and charge me EXTRA for the costs to courier the licence to me! They might have well just tossed it off the smoking balcony at Aviation House and hoped for the best!
Just make sure you photocopy your logbook before sending it!

I have been told at my club to do exactly the same thing. I am going to photocopy my logbook tomorow, Apparently if your logbook is lost the solicitor becomes involved. Best avoided by photocopying logbook.

Kind regards, Joe

I use - SafelogWeb for having a backup.

Get the copies certified by your GP or tax office (free) or solicitor (c.£10) as you make them.

Affidavits are very pricey after the event (min. 1.5 hrs. Arrow IV).

Had my logbook stolen out of my car a few hours after a checkride. I was devastated, but I had photocopied my logbook consistently after being recommended this by an airline HR executive.

Filed a police report to have proof of theft.

Went to the FAA, showed them the police report, showed them my photocopies, they found my 8710 (the checkride application with hours listed), and entered all my totals and signed my logbook. Never had a problem since.

Moral of the story: PHOTOCOPY YOUR LOGBOOK, as the OP writes.

Electronic ones are good, and I use one, but you should copy your logbook to have the endorsements.

I had two sets of photocopies: one at home and another at a friend's house.

great advise guys!!! I am going to make copies ASAP!

SVENSK! :ok:

What other electronic / online log book options are there? Safelog want $79 for three years, is that good value?

I'm always worried that I'll sign up for one of these and then they go bust or worse out of fashion that day and I'll have to re-enter it all (not that much yet) in another system.

Muddy Boots

I like logbook PRO, just sending the backup file to my gmail account every once in a while

no need really to fotocopy all you logbook(you will give up), mine has thousand of pages...
what you can do is to maintain 2 logbooks, or each time you finish a page, just take a digital picture and send it to your self by email.

ah! you have 200h!!!, 3 pages to copy??. in this case no problem.
you school must have a record anyway!

Flyprototype - maintain two logbooks simultaneously? would that not be a pain in the :mad: ??? ...no wonder you have thousands of pages if you are recording everything twice :}

I've been flying for nearly 20 years so loss of original logbooks is more sentimental than anything else.