Still counting landings?

CFI A&P said:
There have been insurance companies that have asked me for time in type and landings in type. This was for a vintage tailwheel so I had to provide # of landings for that.


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That's why I ask, figured ins companies probably want it in some scenarios. Seems like a better to have it and not need it sorta deal.
 
For me the hardest part was remembering which ones are at night. I just import my schedule for the last six months and it just has flight duration and if I made the landing or not. I'm debating about looking back and finding out which ones are at night.

At this point it doesn't much matter, but I'm thinking of trying to go fly some GA and getting checked out at the local muni. Actually it still doesn't matter since the landings won't count anyway.
 
Lo...log? What's that, besides a part of a tree?

I haven't seen my logbook, much less put anything in it since 2006.
 
cezzna said:
I've never totaled landings. Waste of time.
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Right - I was thinking about it and the average length of a trip for me my whole career has been something like 40min and a significant fraction of my flight time is 20 minute legs or less.

I probably have something like 12k landings...

Now I kinda want to know but can't be bothered to find out.
 
ppragman said:
Right - I was thinking about it and the average length of a trip for me my whole career has been something like 40min and a significant fraction of my flight time is 20 minute legs or less.

I probably have something like 12k landings...

Now I kinda want to know but can't be bothered to find out.
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Who the hell cares? I mean really? I gave up logging night time(do log night landings) X-C, IMC. I log TT, landings, time in type. That's it.


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One month working as a flight instructor will knock the habit of totaling landings right out of you.
 
milleR said:
One month working as a flight instructor will knock the habit of totaling landings right out of you.
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Maybe you need one of these?

August landings to date:


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Mattyg36 said:
Okay so I'm sitting here updating my paper log book via foreflight and it just got me to thinking when or if did any if you stop counting landings? Or is it something you should always count?

Guess my real question is would a prospective employer be any less impressed if you quit counting landings at 2,000+?
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To me the real question is why not keep accurate records as you go? You never know when you might need them.
 
I have not logged much, if any, of my part 121 landings. The airline logs landings for currency and it's one less thing to write down and total. Aka, find errors 1,000 pages back.
 
I quit totaling landings when I started flying professionally in the early 80's.

If you are flying allot night and day no need to look up the info. If you are not then it is easy to find out if you are current because there are not many entries.
 
milleR said:
One month working as a flight instructor will knock the habit of totaling landings right out of you.
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What? I found when instructing that I needed to keep a closer eye on my landings otherwise I'd never stay pax current. You'd watch 100 landings a week but depending on what students you had you'd demo maybe a handful.
 
Roger Roger said:
What? I found when instructing that I needed to keep a closer eye on my landings otherwise I'd never stay pax current. You'd watch 100 landings a week but depending on what students you had you'd demo maybe a handful.
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Idk, maybe I just got "lucky" but I used to have almost nothing but PPL students. Being able to log the landings vs actually doing the landings seemed pretty redundant. Currency logging only since about 2006 for me.
 
bLizZuE said:
I have not logged much, if any, of my part 121 landings. The airline logs landings for currency and it's one less thing to write down and total. Aka, find errors 1,000 pages back.
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Depends on the airline. Eagle does not auto log landings.

There I just HIEMJ/02AUG17/03AUG17/04AUG17 when I got the warning message saying my currency was about to expire. Either that or the captain logs my landing in ACARS for me. But he never figured out why my employee number changed on every leg because I kept making up a different employee number for him to put into ACARS to log the landing He didn't even notice when I gave him his employee number to log my landing.

I think after 8 years at eagle officially I only have 96 landings that's what the system has for me anyways.
 
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My logbook doesn't even have a takeoff column. Just landing. I log and count them up. Always did it that way, just kept my same routine 91 or 121.
 
woodreau said:
Depends on the airline. Eagle does not auto log landings.

There I just HIEMJ/02AUG17/03AUG17/04AUG17 when I got the warning message saying my currency was about to expire. Either that or the captain logs my landing in ACARS for me. But he never figured out why my employee number changed on every leg because I kept making up a different employee number for him to put into ACARS to log the landing He didn't even notice when I gave him his employee number to log my landing.

I think after 8 years at eagle officially I only have 96 landings that's what the system has for me anyways.
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Y tho? Wouldn't it be easier to just put in your # and have it all logged?
 
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