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Your logbook is the record of everything you fly. These guides cover how to log instrument and night time, pilot function and roles, and the recency that keeps a licence valid, so each column means what you think it means.
5 guides
- Logbook
Keeping a digital logbook
What a pilot logbook has to record and why, plus the EASA/UK and FAA differences in logging pilot-in-command time, night, and recency that catch people out.
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Recency and currency
The difference between being legally current and being proficient, with the EASA and FAA recent-experience rules for carrying passengers, night flight and instrument flight, each attributed to its authority.
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Pilot function and logging roles
What P1, PICUS, P2 and dual mean under EASA, how the FAA categories differ, and the crucial difference between logging pilot-in-command time and being the pilot in command.
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Logging instrument time
What actually counts as instrument time, the difference between actual and simulated conditions, why being on an IFR flight plan is not enough, and what the FAA and EASA require you to record.
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Logging night flying time
How night is defined for logging under the FAA and EASA, why the FAA has two different nights, what civil twilight means, and how to work out the night portion of a flight.
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