Pilot Logbooks and Duty Time
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Pilot Logbooks and Duty Time
I'm researching how the trucking industry records duty time with log books so I'm curious as to what methods are used for professional pilots?
Is it all electronic now on laptops or PDA's with swipe card or fingerprint ID?
The trucking industry is all paper at the moment but they're looking to go to electronic forms.
Your comments and suggestions would be appreciated.
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Is it all electronic now on laptops or PDA's with swipe card or fingerprint ID?
The trucking industry is all paper at the moment but they're looking to go to electronic forms.
Your comments and suggestions would be appreciated.
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Bear in mind that this is only a general summary:
Pilots usually log from the time the aircraft first moves under it's own power to the time that the brakes are selected On, (known as Chocks On), at the completion of a trip, this is the Flight Time. It is generally assumed that pilots log-on for duty one hour before scheduled departure and log-off thirty minutes after actual Chocks-On, this is known as the Duty Time.
Duty and Flight times are usually recorded manually on the voyage report by the pilots and again manually by each pilot in their personal flying log book.
Some companies that operate the latest technology aircraft are able to log all these times electronically and some pilots use their computer to log their flight times. The legal requirement is, (usually), that a record must be kept.
The various regulating authorities will have their own rules so, as mentioned, the above is a generalisation only.
Pilots usually log from the time the aircraft first moves under it's own power to the time that the brakes are selected On, (known as Chocks On), at the completion of a trip, this is the Flight Time. It is generally assumed that pilots log-on for duty one hour before scheduled departure and log-off thirty minutes after actual Chocks-On, this is known as the Duty Time.
Duty and Flight times are usually recorded manually on the voyage report by the pilots and again manually by each pilot in their personal flying log book.
Some companies that operate the latest technology aircraft are able to log all these times electronically and some pilots use their computer to log their flight times. The legal requirement is, (usually), that a record must be kept.
The various regulating authorities will have their own rules so, as mentioned, the above is a generalisation only.
