Do you need to carry your logbook when you fly?

It may surprise you to learn that there is no requirement to keep a logbook. The FAA has no such rule.



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Recordkeeping. Students just need to keep their endorsements. And unless you're flying a solo cross-country flight you don't legally have to carry your logbook with your endorsements while flying (FAR 61.51 (i)(2)).

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To show proof of the proper endorsements, student pilots must carry their logbooks on all solo cross-country flights.

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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.

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Short answer: an electronic logbook is legal; the FAA will accept almost anything as an endorsement; it's often most practical to collect endorsements on paper but electronic versions are also fine.

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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.

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A pillar of these reforms is the “1,500 Hour Rule” which requires first officers, also known as co-pilots, to have a minimum of 1,500 hours of flight training time. Since this rule was implemented in 2012, our skies have never been safer.

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Airline pilots aren't anonymous. Most captains announce their names over the public address system. But passengers Googling the people in the cockpit as the plane taxis toward the runway are unlikely to find reviews of their past flights.

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1 Answer. It is because those cups have matching lids that won't fit the passenger cups. Lids are used on the flight deck to keep the liquid inside from spilling on the (ever increasing) electronics, especially those located in the center console between the pilots (which house the radios in a lot of airplanes).

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A student pilot may not operate an aircraft in solo flight at night unless that student pilot has received: (1) Flight training at night on night flying procedures that includes takeoffs, approaches, landings, and go-arounds at night at the airport where the solo flight will be conducted; (2) Navigation training at ...

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