Yes, pilots must show their logbook, on request, to: An FAA official. An authorized representative from the National Transportation Safety Board. Any federal, state, or local law enforcement officer.
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In the United States, a pilot is required to log all flight time that is used to meet the minimum requirements for a certificate, rating, flight review, or instrument proficiency check, and for currency. This means that a pilot does not need to record every single one of his or her flights.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires commercial aircraft in the US to have four pieces of paperwork onboard before it can fly. These are the airworthiness certificate, registration certificate, operating manual, and weight & balance. The regulatory authorities use the acronym AROW for this requirement.
Generally the logbook entries are not checked, however, the consequences of false entries being detected are severe-you will be fired from a piloting joib and likely have your pilot's license suspended or revoked.
The FAA doesn't lay out exactly how you should log your hours, even those hours that the rules require. While commercially available paper pilot logbooks have been the standard for decades, nothing specifically says a digital one won't do.
They won the '1,500 hour' rule, flight time required before a pilot could be hired as a first officer at a commercial airline. This was adopted even though both Colgan Air pilots had.. more than 1,500 hours. The rule wasn't meant to prevent future Colgan Air disasters. It was meant to make it harder to become a pilot.
Definition: The 5/20 rule is a norm of the Indian Aviation Ministry under which national carriers are required to have five years of operational experience and a fleet of minimum 20 aircraft to fly overseas. This is applicable to all commercial aviation organisations flying passengers.