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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.
13 guides
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Logging instructor time and dual given
How a flight instructor logs a training flight: dual given, PIC while instructing under the FAA and EASA, instrument instruction, and the signing duties.
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Logging towing and aerobatic time
How glider tows, banner tows and aerobatic flight are logged and authorised: FAA rules 61.69 and 91.311 versus the EASA towing and aerobatic ratings.
11 min read Read - Logbook
Converting and transferring logbooks
Moving a logbook from paper to digital or between formats without losing its value as evidence: carrying totals forward, and what EASA and the FAA require.
9 min read Read - Logbook
Logging multi-crew and cruise-relief time
How pilots log time in a multi-pilot aircraft: P1 and P2, pilot-in-command under supervision, cruise relief, and how EASA roles map onto FAA PIC and SIC.
8 min read Read - Logbook
Recency and currency
The difference between being legally current and proficient, with the EASA and FAA recent-experience rules for passengers, night and instrument flight.
5 min read Read - Logbook
Logging solo and student time
How a student pilot logs dual and solo flying, what supervised solo and student pilot-in-command mean, and what an instructor signs under EASA and the FAA.
8 min read Read - Logbook
Pilot function and logging roles
What P1, PICUS, P2 and dual mean under EASA, how the FAA categories differ, and the difference between logging PIC time and being the pilot in command.
10 min read Read - Logbook
Logging night flying time
How night is defined for logging under the FAA and EASA, why the FAA has two nights, what civil twilight means, and how to find the night portion.
9 min read Read - Logbook
Flight time, block time and air time
The time definitions a logbook uses: why flight time runs chock to chock, how air time differs, and why the figure you log is not the time you were airborne.
8 min read Read - Logbook
Logging instrument time
What counts as instrument time, actual versus simulated conditions, why an IFR flight plan is not enough, and what the FAA and EASA require you to record.
7 min read Read - Logbook
Logging simulator and FSTD time
How synthetic training time is logged, the FFS, FTD, FNPT, BITD and ATD device categories, and where simulator time does and does not count.
7 min read Read - 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.
5 min read Read - Logbook
Logging cross-country time
What counts as cross-country time, why the FAA ties it to distance thresholds for some ratings while EASA does not, and how to log it without overclaiming.
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