CFI Logbook question

Get one or two of those nice flash thumb drives to copy the
logbook, they make nice backups, can be carried into the FAA
office. Electronic signatures all fully as legal as pen and
ink.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

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"Andrew Sarangan" wrote in message
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|
| kontiki wrote:
| I just received my CFI ticket (finally decided to go for
it) and now I
| want to log flight training hours in a separate logbook.
Any of you CFIs
| have a suggestion for one? I've searched the usual pilot
shops on line
| and it appears that a logbook geared to CFI flight
training doesn't exist...
| It seems that would be a popular item.
|
| I don't want to a computerized logbook (for now) since I
don't have a laptop.
| Which of the available ones (ASA, Jeppeson, et.al.) do
you CFIs recommend?
|
| TIA
|
| Why not just use a spreadsheet? I use excel to keep track
of all kinds
| of things such as flight time, ground time, invoices,
expenses,
| endorsements, currency etc.. At the end of the year, I can
easily
| figure out all the financial information for income tax
reporting. I
| can also easily find my total time in each aircraft type
for insurance
| purposes. I can also sort the data for each student
separately to see
| how well they are progressing.
|
| I only use my paper logbook for things like flght reviews
and IPC's
| where someone has to affix a signature.
|
| Once every few months I take a printout formatted to look
like a
| regular logbook and put it away in case I lose my computer
data.
|

Jim Burns wrote:
P.S.
Congratulations on completing your CFI certificate. When you have time, I'm
sure that everyone would love to hear about your training and checkride!
Jim
Thanks. I own a plane which I fly a fair amount and I'm also a part time
Forestry pilot so I wanted to keep any flight training hours separately to
make it easier to keep track of lessons flights with students. To me it
makes sense... like why we create different folders for different stuff on
our computers. Its all disk space, but organizing things makes it easier
to find.

I actuallt started working on the CFI 3 years ago.. took the written for
CFI, CFII and AGI but switched jobs/careers and moved so it got put on
hold. HAd to retake the CFI written because it had expired. I worked with
a couple of local CFIs and got signed off for the practical. Had to go
through the FSDO and got to do it with some FAA guys. For me, that part
was pretty stressful (they scrutinized the aircraft up and down, but
that's another story). Didn't perform the short field and soft field
landings up to snuff enough for the examiner so I had to redo them later.
(I actually spent minimal time on them so I wasn't suprised when they
didn't turn out very well!)

"Jim Macklin" wrote in message news:UadVf.734$t22.621@dukeread08...
Get one or two of those nice flash thumb drives to copy the
logbook, they make nice backups, can be carried into the FAA
office. Electronic signatures all fully as legal as pen and
ink.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P



Electronic signatures are not for the feint of heart, however. There are all sorts of things you need to have in place
to make it valid: http://www.faa.gov/library/manuals/e...3/3_011_02.pdf for
example....