Logbook question - Remarks section

89-LX

89-LX

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I wasn't sure of where to put this, but I'm going through my logbook and making everything in order for a job application along with updating my electronic logbook and I had a question regarding the remarks section. For all my training flights, flight instructor flights, and early friends/family flights I always put in some remarks about the flight. As of awhile ago, I just stopped writing what I did and who was on the flight and left the remarks section blank for the last 100 flights or so unless I thought it was important (Like Cedar Point, or first flight with the g/f). Now when I go on an interview for a CFI spot or a 121/135 carrier, will this raise questions about the remarks being blank or not? I'm also adding my entire logbook into logbook pro and I don't feel like typing all those remarks either.

Thanks.
 
No, it shouldn't hurt you. Just make sure your remarks are professional in nature and you don't having something listed that shows you breaking a reg. I use LBP too and transcribed all my remarks over. Just do 10-20 entries a night and in time it will all be in there. I just put who the student was and basics about what was done (e.g. Joe Pilot, x/w landings). For flights I received dual on I put the CFI's name, and CFI number and briefly what was done. I also use all caps when entering the airport id's, idents, and remarks.

When you get to 135/121 flying I just put who the crew was and their employee number. I also note legs that are 91 ferry legs.

Another item I believe companies like is if you tab your licenses and ratings so they can easily find them in your logbook.
 
89-LX said:
I wasn't sure of where to put this, but I'm going through my logbook and making everything in order for a job application along with updating my electronic logbook and I had a question regarding the remarks section. For all my training flights, flight instructor flights, and early friends/family flights I always put in some remarks about the flight. As of awhile ago, I just stopped writing what I did and who was on the flight and left the remarks section blank for the last 100 flights or so unless I thought it was important (Like Cedar Point, or first flight with the g/f). Now when I go on an interview for a CFI spot or a 121/135 carrier, will this raise questions about the remarks being blank or not? I'm also adding my entire logbook into logbook pro and I don't feel like typing all those remarks either.

Thanks.
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Just be careful about what you put in there - on a recent interview I was semi called out on the remarks section... it had mentioned an emergency landing in a foreign country, the interviewer pointed that out and asked about the story... then asked if there was an entry in the mx logbook by a mechanic, etc prior to departing again. The answer was... well no... there really weren't a bunch of A&Ps to choose from. So moral of the story, unless you want a long conversation about exactly what happened and if you handled the paperwork right, avoid putting anything like that in the remarks.
 
Zero comments in the last two years of flying. I don't think any potential airline needs to see "steep turns with Jack Wang" 800 hundred times :)
 
All I put into the remarks are the number of landings for that sortie, and the number/type of any instrument approaches performed (1 HI-TACAN 3 at KIKR). Only other thing would be tanker type/number info, but thats mil specific.
 
When I was CFI'ing I would put the name of my student. On leisure flight I'd put like "dinner flight with mum", nothing else...
 
Pépé le Pilot said:
When I was CFI'ing I would put the name of my student. On leisure flight I'd put like "dinner flight with mum", nothing else...
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Occasionally, syllabus and lesson for students, and if anything interesting happened (e.g, "SVFR back to the field", "Engine quit", "RTB after fixing starter", etc).
 
OMGZ! All you guys who are leving the remarks section blank are going to get busted by the FAA!!!!! 11!!1one!1ONE111
 
I don't even log individual flights anymore, just the weekly totals. In the remarks, I put the flight number(s) of the routes I flew that week "MRA 662, 200, 123".
 
Thanks guys. For any flight that I give instruction, I always put the name and what was done. All my training flights have my flight instructors signature. My biggest concern is the pleasure flights that I have completely blank unless it was a memorable flight.

mshunter said:
OMGZ! All you guys who are leving the remarks section blank are going to get busted by the FAA!!!!! 11!!1one!1ONE111
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Its not the FAA I'm concerned about, I know its not required to even be filled out. My concern is on a potential job interview, someone seeing a lot of please flights on a page or two with the remarks not filled out and questioning me on it. My buddy has a twin that I fly for the cost of fuel a lot, so I'm always flying that thing around.
 
89-LX said:
I know its not required to even be filled out. My concern is on a potential job interview, someone seeing a lot of please flights on a page
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You mean like "please land"?

I write out the destination in remarks, full name. 1978 I rented a plane out of L16 a couple of times. Try to find what L16 is/was today.
 
89-LX said:
All my training flights have my flight instructors signature. My biggest concern is the pleasure flights that I have completely blank unless it was a memorable flight.
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And anyone would care why? About the only thing I'll put is the type of approach flown and rwy, if relevant. Actually, I also log anyone throwing up, since I might be curious how many times it has happened someday.
 
fholbert said:
You mean like "please land"?
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I don't know what happened, it was suppose to say pleasure flights, but for some reason the keyboard didn't pick up the 'ur'.

drunkenbeagle said:
And anyone would care why? About the only thing I'll put is the type of approach flown and rwy, if relevant. Actually, I also log anyone throwing up, since I might be curious how many times it has happened someday.
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I just had a former instructor say to always detail your flights. I know for training that's true, but I wasn't sure if it meant anything after training.
 
89-LX said:
I just had a former instructor say to always detail your flights. I know for training that's true, but I wasn't sure if it meant anything after training.
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For dual given, yes - log every detail possible. But for pleasure flights, I often don't put any remarks (unless something remarkable happened.)
 
It doesn't matter if you fill in a remark or not but years ago someone older and wiser told me "You should put a little something in there for each flight because years from now you're going to be reading through your logbook and you'll see a flight and think 'Now why did I go there?' and you're going to wish you had."

So I always include a short remark about the flight.
 
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