When you only record your activities on a paper version of a logbook, errors quickly slip in your totals, and afterwards it is hard work to correct those mistakes. It will make the processing of and retrieving your recorded flight/sim data ergonomic and accurate.So I invite you to consider keeping an electronic logbook. how many hours day/night, how many hours SEP or MEP, how many landings in the last year, etc. Dates, locations, timings, aircraft types, names of captains/co-pilots, IFR/VFR, etc.Īt different stages of your career, you will want specific listings of each of those variables, be if for applying for a new rating or just for your own curiosity: i.e. Most of you are at the beginning of a flying career, so you will hopefully have a lot of recordings with a lot of variables to make in your logbooks.