Jeppesen Professional Pilot Logbook: Is yours falling apart?

[montanapilot]

Re: Jeppesen Professional Pilot Logbook: Is yours falling ap

horrible quality mine fell apart after a year. I took it to a book binder charged me 10 bucks, it has lasted just fine and is now filled up.

 

[aloft]

Re: Jeppesen Professional Pilot Logbook: Is yours falling ap

Jeppesen advertises that this logbook is good for ten years of entries. However, from the appearance of my logbook, I doubt that I will get 10 more months -- as the pages are falling out and coming out of the binding. Any ideas on how to repair my logbook?

This is very puzzling to me. The pages in hardbound books are sewn together in multi-page signatures, not glued. That individual pages are falling out seems to suggest that Jeppesen is simply slapping a hard cover on a perfect-bound (glued) book. That is the height of cheesiness.

I myself am just a couple pages from filling my original 23-year-old Jepp logbook, and went to great lengths to find the pre-2008 version* of the ASA Pilot Master Log (ASA's version of the Jepp Pro Logbook) for my next logbook. It is very securely sewn together, and should I ever need to, slapping a new hard cover on will be a snap.

*(For the curious, I wanted this version because in 2008, ASA added a whole bunch of columns to their logbooks to comply with JAA requirements instead of producing JAA and non-JAA versions as Jeppesen does, which basically rendered each column too small to be useful. The older version is much more usable IMHO. If you're looking for this older version, there are two physical differences that you can detect without unwrapping the shrinkwrap: shinier cover material, and more noticeably, the logo and "ASA PILOT MASTER LOG" stuff on the front cover is foil-embossed and has relief/depth to each shiny letter, rather than simply being printed on with gold ink as is the case with the 2008 edition.)