is it REQUIRED to keep an electronic logbook

[JoelT]

6500 hours and I still keep it on paper.

I stopped keeping my logbook at 6500 . I think I am somewhere in the neighborhood of 7500-8000 now. I should pull it up in DBMS.

I really believe that a super neat paper logbook makes a great impression on the interviewer. Attention to detail is everything in an interview!

Agree. I even used the same pen from the day I started CFIing to the day I was hired at Delta.

 

[MidlifeFlyer]

It has always been my interpretation that you could log your hours on sticky notes if you wanted

Maybe so. But is a box or bag of sticky notes the FAA's interpretation of "a manner acceptable to the Administrator"?

I hope no one who actually does it on stickies (although stickies organized in some way probably would work) or cocktail napkins or the myriad other examples of "you can log your hours on [insert favorite]" people come up with is even in a situation of needing to justify their record-keeping system in an enforcement action.

 

[CoffeeIcePapers]

Maybe so. But is a box or bag of sticky notes the FAA's interpretation of "a manner acceptable to the Administrator"?

I hope no one who actually does it on stickies (although stickies organized in some way probably would work) or cocktail napkins or the myriad other examples of "you can log your hours on [insert favorite]" people come up with is even in a situation of needing to justify their record-keeping system in an enforcement action.

We had an instructor show the local FSDO guy a prinout of his billable hours which showed the airplane and the student name and he just signed the bottom of each page. The FSDO guy didn't mind. Granted, the FSDOs make their own rules, but it is pretty similar to a cocktail napkin.

 

[Goonie]

Never understood this one. Why don't you (all of the electronic people, not you you) just start your e-loogbook with what you have at the time? Seems pointless to back-fill it, if it's just to keep track. Are you really going to toss the paper one anyways?

:yeahthat:

My first entry was a 2500+ hour flight.

 

[jtrain609]

:yeahthat:

My first entry was a 2500+ hour flight.

Funny, that's what I've done with my paper logbook. I wrote in my flying at ExpressJet one month at a time.

 

[Jshutt64]

6500 hours and I still keep it on paper.

I created an excel program to crosscheck my times as a sort of redneck electronic notebook prior to my interviews at both the regional level and major level.

There's definitely a feeling of peace knowing that you're walking in with perfectly added logbooks to an interview!

Other than a crosscheck, I'm not a huge fan of electronic logbooks as a replacement of the old school paper ones. I really believe that a super neat paper logbook makes a great impression on the interviewer. Attention to detail is everything in an interview!

I think most of us still do keep it on paper, but use the electronic logbook as backup.

It helps me keep my paper logbook neater, actually. I'm very prone to make mistakes, and entering it in Logbook Pro first (or adding up the times) gives me a greater chance of not having to cross something out on paper.