![]() I also keep a USB stick with scans of my logbooks with me in my flight bag. (Third is turned off in flight bag.) So I'm pretty sure I'll always have one that works.Īnd yes, I keep backups. I have 3 iDevices with me at all times when flying, two of which are always plugged into power. (To protect me against math errors.) After completing my IR, I went back to digital log only, but my wife periodically updates my paper logs from the digital version. However, I still maintained the digital one. Once I started instrument training, I filled in my paper logs to include all the post-PPL flights, as it was easier to carry a paper log and use it during training (and for the checkride) than using the digital. ![]() I used the standard paper logbook all through initial PPL. Overall I think it was a benefit to perform the one-time dual entry of data, but there were certainly pluses and minuses overall to the process and the subsequent upkeep. During those audits, I found all kinds of errors here and there from mistakes I made in the data entry, from commas instead of periods (1,6 instead of 1.6) to transposition of digits (8.0 instead of 0.8). Then, for years afterward, I forced myself to perform occasional line-by-line audits in preparation for applying to the airlines. As others have noted, I can't even remember how many math errors I rooted out of my civilian logbooks when I did that, but the number of errors was notable. When I switched to digital, the purpose was for me to synthesize about 5 years of military flying in with 10 years of civilian flying prior to, and concurrent with, that into one seamless/searchable/customizable database. If I set up an online logbook as a backup, do I do the actual entries myself, and then give them a code that they can sign in under to review what I logged and then sign off with a digital signature that I received instruction?Ĭlick to expand.The biggest benefit - and biggest Achilles heel - of taking physical logbook data and line-by-line entering it into digital form is accuracy of data. obviously I will have a few different instructors sign-off on my paper logbook until I find the right guy/gal. I plan to make use of those services as backups to my paper logbook once I start flying regularly. I definitely plan on logging those hours! I know there are several places that have online logbooks. ![]() I’m not worried about losing those hours, but here in the near future I plan on taking several “re-discovery” flights to more or less find myself an instructor who I feel comfortable and am in sync with. I had my fingers crossed but to no avail, the nice lady called me back and said no dice, and that they’ve changed FBO management over the years and they’d always move stuff in and move stuff out. I figured just for s**ts and giggles I’d call up whomever was baby sitting the airport in Brush, CO, and ask them if they wouldn’t mind taking a look around in some of the shelves, desk drawers, and filing cabinets. The last place I could remember where it might be is at the FBO where I received my training. I had a little over 6 hours logged time in a 182 and a Citabria. Recently while digging around in the back of my closet (which basically got all this rolling again), I found all my old ppl training books and gadgets from over 30 years ago, but I couldn't find my logbook.
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