Comments on: Not enough room

By: Ken Olsson

Ken Olsson — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:06:20 +0000

I don’t understand why constraining your written remarks to a small box outweighs the value of the written remarks themselves. One CFI I flew with printed tiny and kept his notes inside the box. Despite scanning my logbook pages at 1200 DPI and enlarging them substantially I can still decipher only about 70% of his entries. If logbook entries are to be useful (and legal?) they need to be legible. A standard ASA logbook lists for $6.95 and if you log two flights per page and you fly weekly that book will last well into next year. There’s no good reason for squeezing all your flight remarks into a little box.

By: Bonanza Babe

Bonanza Babe — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:58:31 +0000

It only takes one engine-out to change one’s mind about single engine ops at night – if even that much…

By: Anne

Anne — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:22:14 +0000

I am a student pilot, my instructor started making more extensive notes in my log book after I began to list the landings I did all by myself and any thing else that we did, like stopping for lunch at some airport. It has become a wonderful diary covering my learning experience. Something I will never forget. So what ,if some flying days end up taking half a page in my log book,I don’t care, I”ll just buy a new log book when the old one gets filled, but I will have lots of great memories reading the old book. P.S She also draws happy faces in my log book on the really good days.

By: Eric R

Eric R — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:29:21 +0000

Great story David!

By: Don N. Hagist

Don N. Hagist — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:01:04 +0000

Don’t feel compeled to stay inside the lines! It’s your logbook – use multiple lines to fill in as much information about each flight as you want to record – and remember! Years from now, it’ll be better to have several full logbooks that really tell stories than a single one that abbreviates all of the indivuality out of the experiences.

By: David Jack Kenny

David Jack Kenny — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:44:53 +0000

I like to keep my logbook entries terse. I guess it’s a mental habit dating back to my student pilot days, in which I wanted to accumulate the maximum number of hours per page. Anyway, even though it will take years to fill up the large book I use now, I like seeing each page fully utilized.

I suppose I should keep an electronic version with unlimited space for comments, but, frankly, I’m just too lazy.

Sander, closing an international airport for 45 minutes may even beat the stories of candidates who got sick during their checkrides!

– DJK

By: Sander

Sander — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:46:24 +0000

Nice flight David,
unfortunately I didn’t experienced so memorable flight in my carrier, but a good one was my check flight (I can’t tell about it in my blog, so stay between us) where the rigth tire blew when I landing at the main runway of the Florianopolis’s International Airport, so I closed the airport for about 45 minutes, can you imagine? A cessna 152 closing an International Airport!

By: Gary Moore

Gary Moore — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:34:22 +0000

Just curious – why do you feel compelled to keep your logbook entry within the one line? Why not use multiple lines or the whole page for that matter? One of my early private students was quite the artist – he used an entire page for ‘each’ flight entry – long descriptions, pictures and drawings of the day – it was fantastic…..