Do you keep a logbook?
SkyGod
Joined: Aug 2000
Aviation Qualifications: ATPL
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From: Palm Coast, Florida, USA
BlueEagle:
Sad attitude towards logbooks?
Yeah, perhaps so but I kept logging for over 20 years, then just lost interest. Got burned out on flying and now it is just a pay-check, yet when I started out in 1977, heck I was more hooked than most of the PPRuNe gang.
As I was working my way up as a Flight Instructor and parachute pilot, I used every spare penny and bought more courses and ratings and logged every touch and go and all that.
Kept on trucking for years untill one day I was flying left seat of a DC-3 and thought I have died and gone to heaven. Logged every hour of that adventure.
Some ten years and many jobs and types later, I strapped into the left seat of a B-747 and flew it for the 4 years it lasted. Even logged the time...
Then that deal fell apart and I ended up as an F/E on the B-727 for a different company, sort of lost interest and quit logging.
No big deal, just more interested in sailing and diving than flying.
Flying has been good to me, but the passion has gone:
Don't rent small planes anymore, have not done my tail wheel or float plane stuff in years, nor instructed. (Kept my CFI current, not sure why)
So to the boys and gals who enjoy your flying, fantastic, go for it and keep logging the events and hours and landings and all that, but it is after all optional..
Sad attitude towards logbooks?
Yeah, perhaps so but I kept logging for over 20 years, then just lost interest. Got burned out on flying and now it is just a pay-check, yet when I started out in 1977, heck I was more hooked than most of the PPRuNe gang.
As I was working my way up as a Flight Instructor and parachute pilot, I used every spare penny and bought more courses and ratings and logged every touch and go and all that.
Kept on trucking for years untill one day I was flying left seat of a DC-3 and thought I have died and gone to heaven. Logged every hour of that adventure.
Some ten years and many jobs and types later, I strapped into the left seat of a B-747 and flew it for the 4 years it lasted. Even logged the time...
Then that deal fell apart and I ended up as an F/E on the B-727 for a different company, sort of lost interest and quit logging.
No big deal, just more interested in sailing and diving than flying.
Flying has been good to me, but the passion has gone:
Don't rent small planes anymore, have not done my tail wheel or float plane stuff in years, nor instructed. (Kept my CFI current, not sure why)
So to the boys and gals who enjoy your flying, fantastic, go for it and keep logging the events and hours and landings and all that, but it is after all optional..
Joined: Jul 2002
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From: The Frozen North
I kept them all, including glider.
A simple line can evoke a hilarious story even 25 years later.
Pictures of Mates, planes, places, squadron stickers, a mention of a hairy approach or a stupid one, I can recall most of the better events or the last 20, 354 hours.
I don't plan on any interviews with airlines in the near future, but all the times can be verified with three phone calls, and it would probably add a bit to an otherwise boring chat session.
A simple line can evoke a hilarious story even 25 years later.
Pictures of Mates, planes, places, squadron stickers, a mention of a hairy approach or a stupid one, I can recall most of the better events or the last 20, 354 hours.
I don't plan on any interviews with airlines in the near future, but all the times can be verified with three phone calls, and it would probably add a bit to an otherwise boring chat session.
Joined: Apr 1999
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From: England
Logbook Software
Would anybody have any suggestions for computer logbooks? Or possibly there own excel type version. I'm up to 2100 hours and want let my logbooks out the house in case I lose them. It would be great to have a copy on my laptop. (I'd rather lose that than my Logbook; at least the insurance company can replace it!)
Joined: Apr 2001
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From: Around the World
After making too many mistakes in counting the hours and during a time, waiting in a hotel somewhere in Indonesia to get my license validated (and believe me, that takes long time... 
) for a charter operation, I sat down and made an Excel version of my Logbook. I am quite happy with that and in fact I log my hours now only 'virtually'. I use the printouts as my formal logbook. Those can be signed as well and everybody is happy
) for a charter operation, I sat down and made an Excel version of my Logbook. I am quite happy with that and in fact I log my hours now only 'virtually'. I use the printouts as my formal logbook. Those can be signed as well and everybody is happy
Joined: Oct 2001
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From: UK
Tower Dog:
You sound like a very sad and bitter individual to me. I have been flying for more than twice your 20 years and have found myself out of luck (and ideas) more times than you have had hot dinners but I have a great passion for flying and have always got back up there somehow.
If all you are interested in now is sailing, why the hell are you on Pprune?
Why don't you write a book about your sad experiences? That is where a logbook really comes in handy. I could not have written my first one with any accuracy without such an accurate record.
You sound like a very sad and bitter individual to me. I have been flying for more than twice your 20 years and have found myself out of luck (and ideas) more times than you have had hot dinners but I have a great passion for flying and have always got back up there somehow.
If all you are interested in now is sailing, why the hell are you on Pprune?
Why don't you write a book about your sad experiences? That is where a logbook really comes in handy. I could not have written my first one with any accuracy without such an accurate record.
