On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Chris Gumm wrote:

I hope I'm not the only one guilty of this, but do any of you that rent
aircraft ever look at the logs? I have never looked at ant log for an
aircraft I rented, it wasn't even brought up in my training. Well actually
it was only mentioned while I was doing training. I recently found out that
the current aircraft I rent crashed a few years back.

The Club's aircraft all have Journey Logs; those logs plus the plane's
other papers are handed over with the keys when you sign the plane out,
and the instructors expect you to check at least the most recent page or
two quickly to see if anything has been done to the plane (mechanic-wise)
and how much it's flown lately.

That's become second nature, after 190+hrs of flying Club planes. Even
when I'm PIC I always check the Journey Logs very quickly. At the very
least, knowing whether the plane's already been used that day or not will
give you a clue as to how difficult the beast will be to start... :

Brian - PP-ASEL/Night -