Episode 453: Unsigned, Uncounted, and Unprepared: The Missing Logbook Totals

Hey, we're wrapping up the 30 days. We're getting close to the end. This is a very simple tip, but let me tell you something that's going to help you ahead of time, help you save time and energy when you're at the flight school. What we see a lot, somebody will show up and they. It's been a while since they've totaled their pages and signed their pages. Sometimes they forget signed pages in the past. And our examiner, he goes through your logbook pretty much page by page. He's going to sit down, or he sits down, he opens it up and he spends maybe four or five or six minutes just kind of leafing through page to page. So as simple as this is, make sure that you have all of your pages caught up, every single page signed, because it's not going to fly if you haven't signed it. And make sure that all your hours are tabbed. And I tell people this before coming here to do this and make sure that your book is caught up. And many times they haven't done that. And I'll give you an example, I won't mention his name, that he's like, I told him to do this. And he's like, oh, no big deal. That's quick. It doesn't take long. And then he spent a half a day on the couch over here with me sitting there waiting and waiting. And we charge $950 a day, so if you want to sit here and pay me 950 bucks for the day, and half of that day went to me sitting there watching you figure your logbook probably not a good use of your time and your money. It sounds very simple when you're just doing a private. And maybe you got 60 or 80 hours, that's not so tough. But then when you start getting into adding additional ratings and maybe you've been flying airplanes and you're flying helicopters, when you sit down and do the 8710 and you have to go back and figure your dual and your cross countries and everything and get them separated between airplane and helicopter. An 8710 catching up hours can take half of a day. And near the end of a checkride, the last thing you'll be doing is you want to be screwing around figuring up your hours. So take the time a week or two before your checkride, make sure you get in there, catch up your log book, make sure every single page is signed, make sure all your times are moved over. And something else that's a big one for our examiner, as soon as he Comes in, he looks at your documents, but he immediately says, where'd you go on your cross country? So what we've been doing, we've been printing out there. We go on like 4 flight and we find the distances and where they went on their cross country, we print it out and we have it right there on the table. Because he'll ask right away, where'd you go in your cross country? Oh, it's right here. And they'll go, okay, show me that in your logbook. So have that marked in your log book. This is again for private. So they know right where to go to find that cross country and then know where your endorsement is for that cross country. Because a lot of times person's like, oh, yeah, well, I went here, I thought I went there. And then you're look, trying to go through the logbook trying to find where that cross country was. And the examiner wants to know, well, what's the miles? Well, I know it was long enough. Well, how do you know it was long enough? If you have it printed out from foreflight, you can have the miles marked right on there so you know exactly how far it was, know where it sat in the logbook, and make sure there's an endorsement that covers that cross country. Because we've seen that happen. Somebody did the cross country, but it wasn't endorsed by their instructor. So there's a lot to the paperwork getting ready for checkrides. But this is one simple tip. Make sure you take the time to go through, add up your pages, make sure that they're all signed, and know where your requirements are throughout the logbook. So the day of your checkride, you're not leafing page to page while the examiner's huffing and puffing because you're trying to figure out where did you go on your cross country? It's just not real impressive when you do that. So do us a favor, subscribe to the channel, click the bell. We got two more videos coming up to end off this series. Click the little bell and you subscribe and we'll see you next video. Peace out.

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