How do you log your flights in your logbook?

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ClearedToTakeoff

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Currently I just mark 1 landing (because by the time I write in my logbook i forget if it's touch and go's or pattern, so I just assume I assisted with one landing somewhere), the amount of time of the flight, and student's name only.

Would this be proper form when I apply to a 121/135 outfit? Should I start logging my flights differently?
 
ClearedToTakeoff said:
Currently I just mark 1 landing (because by the time I write in my logbook i forget if it's touch and go's or pattern, so I just assume I assisted with one landing somewhere), the amount of time of the flight, and student's name only.

Would this be proper form when I apply to a 121/135 outfit? Should I start logging my flights differently?
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You will now never work 121/135 for not having the exact number of landings in your logbook.

When you go for a 121 interview your going to answer stupid, cookie cutter questions that really degrade the whole interview process-they're may be or not a sim eval. 135 is going to be a "get-ta-know-ya, where are you coming from" and so forth.
No one cares about landings. If they are hung up on it, you probably don't want to work there anyways.
 
Always log on the conservative side when in doubt. There is nothing incorrect about not logging a landing on a flight.

I might suggest keeping a 3x5 card with notes of what happened during a day of instructing. Then when you sit down at the end of the day or the next morning to update your logbook you won't need to depend upon memory alone in order to be accurate.
 
ClearedToTakeoff said:
Currently I just mark 1 landing (because by the time I write in my logbook i forget if it's touch and go's or pattern, so I just assume I assisted with one landing somewhere),
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Assuming you're logging for the FAA purpose of showing passenger currency and not for some other non-FAA purpose, landing are logged based on being the "sole manipulator of the controls" when doing the landing, not "assisting" a landing.

If you are logging the landings for some other non-FAA purpose, then it really doesn't matter what you put in so long as you make it clear in your logbook so that some Inspector who happens to look through it doesn't think you logged them to show currency.
 
When I was instructing, I often logged flight with NO landings, cause my students were the ones landing the plane. When I went up with a new student, where I was landing the plane, I logged those.


I don't know about 121, but Part 135 and 91, I have yet to have an employer (or possible employer) look at my logbooks, EVER! Nor has anyone (except on the 8710 form) asked me how many landings I have made.
 
Okay, so in the remarks section, is just logging the students name common practice or should i put everything i'm writing in my student's logbook there as well
 
ClearedToTakeoff said:
Okay, so in the remarks section, is just logging the students name common practice or should i put everything i'm writing in my student's logbook there as well
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I always put a little more than just there name, but not a lot. Obviously you go into depth in the student logbook about what you covered during the flight, but in my personal logbook I would just hit a few of the things we did. I don't know that my way was 'right' either, but the thing to remember is it is your logbook. Log it like you want to log it, as long as it is legal, you're okay.
 
i just log the landings where i was the sole manipulator of the flight controls. As far as the remarks section, i put the students full name, what kind of rating/ certificate im training them for, lesson # and any special remarks, Ex: Logbook endorsements, solos...etc
 
ClearedToTakeoff said:
Okay, so in the remarks section, is just logging the students name common practice or should i put everything i'm writing in my student's logbook there as well
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It depends. I think good recordkeeping means being able to reconstruct a lesson. If you are teaching Part 141 where the school keeps detailed lesson records, or you are referencing a syllabus, the student's name and maybe a reference to the other record should be enough.

If not Part 141, you might set your your own system. For example, I use a 2-part carbonless kneeboard sheet to record the tasks accomplished during a lesson, so all I put in my logbook is the student's name.
 
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