When using a logbook for the first time, one of the first things that you need to decide is the format you will use to log time. By applying the few basic rules in this article, you will ensure that your logbook stays pristine and professional for the rest of your aviation journey. If you have more experience, your logbook can quickly (if it hasn’t already) spiral out of control and become a mess of corrections, dissimilar text, and worse of all – errors. If you’ve just begun your aviation journey, the pilot logbook can seem intimidating with all of its columns, rows, and acronyms. The pilot logbook is far more than a timekeeping record A pilot’s logbook represents their professional history and flight experience, and because no one logbook is the same, their personality. If the aircraft is the pilot’s sword, the logbook is their battle scar.
