Another logging time thread

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hcaeborev

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Curious as to how other CFIs out there are logging your time. I've been flying 30+ hours a week for the past 6-8 months. Do you all log every single flight you do seperately? I was thinking for sanity reasons of logging maybe a week's worth of flights on one line.....discuss/input/suggestions.

Thanks.
 
I log every flight, but I prabably only do my logbook once a month if I am lucky... Went three months without entering anything once last year and realized that was a mistake!!
 
I'm the same way. I fly 4 different airplanes with 12 different tail numbers. SO I log them all separately.
 
I'm still working on putting together about 15 months of missed time. Totals around 800-900 hours... Do it every flight and don't get lazy!

No I'm doing in on a google spreadsheet though my phone.
 
61.51(b)Logbook entries. For the purposes of meeting the requirements of paragraph (a) of this section, each person must enter the following information for each flight or lesson logged:

I think that pretty much answers ther question.
 
MidlifeFlyer said:
61.51(b)Logbook entries. For the purposes of meeting the requirements of paragraph (a) of this section, each person must enter the following information for each flight or lesson logged:

I think that pretty much answers ther question.
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Yes, but that refers to paragraph (a) exclusively, which deals with logging for currency or towards a certificate.

When I flew skydivers, we would sometimes fly almost 15 loads per day. I was not about to make a log entry of .5 or .6 for each and every flight. Instead I just totaled up the time for each day and made one entry. That being said, I always log my flights as an instructor separately from one another.
 
TheBritishBaron said:
Yes, but that refers to paragraph (a) exclusively, which deals with logging for currency or towards a certificate.
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Well, yeah. I was working on the assumption that the question was dealing with logging for some FAA purpose, not just for the heck of it or as a diary or for some other purpose that has no relation to the regulatory logbook function.
When I flew skydivers, we would sometimes fly almost 15 loads per day. I was not about to make a log entry of .5 or .6 for each and every flight. Instead I just totaled up the time for each day and made one entry.
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Besides, given the FAA various interpretations on what a "flight" consists of (at least in the cross country context), I think that it's certainly proper to treat all of the flights in a single day in a single aircraft as a single "flight," even for 61.51(a) purposes.
 
MidlifeFlyer said:
Well, yeah. I was working on the assumption that the question was dealing with logging for some FAA purpose, not just for the heck of it or as a diary or for some other purpose that has no relation to the regulatory logbook function
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Was honestly just nitpicking mate. I understood what you were getting at.:)
 
I log every flight individually. I also add in the unused space everything we did in the flight and not just "lesson 5 complete". Yes it seems like a hassle, but that one time when your student decides not to flare on their solo and gets a prop strike, I want to be prepared.
 
I log each flight separately except when it's a cross country and we go UOX -> CRX -> UOX. I log that on one line.

I also log everything I do with each student on each flight.
 
I have one entry, it says:

2001-2009. Buffalo-Philadelphia-Buffalo-Daytona Beach-Buffalo, C172, 808.0.

But on a serious note, the following generate new lines:
-Different Student
-Different Tail Number
-Change of Date

I keep track of the student's last name. I don't write what we did. I'm a bad person.
 
Somehow, I developed the practice of making a new entry every time I turn off the engine off. For flights I give instruction, I list the conduct of the flight in the comments section, same as Maurus.
 
Maurus said:
I log every flight individually. I also add in the unused space everything we did in the flight and not just "lesson 5 complete". Yes it seems like a hassle, but that one time when your student decides not to flare on their solo and gets a prop strike, I want to be prepared.
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I used to do that. Then I started just writing the students name. Now I don't put anything. The student puts in his logbook what we did, and the school can tell me who I flew with and when if I ever need to know. We are also 141 so we have training records...no need to repeat that in my logbook.
 
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