I'm surprised. I never knew how it all worked. That leaves the whole
'minimum number of hours required' thing a bit open to fudging doesn't it?
Crash Lander

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"Jose" wrote in message
m...
When pilots quote how many hours they have logged, is this a personal log
that is kept, or is every hour you fly entered into a national registry
and formally kept?

It is a personal log; no national registry is kept. It is required that
any flight time that you use towards currency requirements and ratings be
logged appropriately. It is not required that all time be logged, though
as a matter of practice most pilots probably log it all. There are rules
about how the log is kept (for example, the flight conditions (day/night,
instrument, simulated instrument), the administrative conditions ("pilot
in command, second in command, single engine/multi engine) and other
things. It's basically fairly simple, although certain nuances of the
rules keep Usenet participants busy posting when they should be flying.


Jose
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