Excel spreadsheet for logbook?
12-24-2006, 05:54 PM
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yeah I know that my UPT time will not be worth crap, but what the hell. Like you, I want to remeber who I flew with and what I was doing (messing up more than likely) at the time. I would assume that you can count your solo time as PIC, seeing that you are the only person in the plane?
It doesn't have the nostalgia of my Dad's Vietnam logbooks, but oh well.
12-25-2006, 08:33 PM
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Do you have an AFORMS printout (the old green-and-white paper printed with a dot matrix printer) or a TIMS printout (standard paper from a laser printer)?
12-25-2006, 09:52 PM
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TIMS. The title in the header calls it "Daily Student Resume." The 8 page document lists every aircraft, sim, and trainer event.
12-25-2006, 11:25 PM
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An excel spreadsheet will be just dry numbers. A logbook will be a personal history of flight. And when you are years later telling the story for the one hundredth time, you can go back to the logbook and see how much better, smarter, quicker, calmer and cooler you have gotten over the years telling the story...
12-26-2006, 01:17 AM
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An excel spreadsheet will be just dry numbers. A logbook will be a personal history of flight. And when you are years later telling the story for the one hundredth time, you can go back to the logbook and see how much better, smarter, quicker, calmer and cooler you have gotten over the years telling the story...
I do, however, agree that your logbook will be a source of great reflection with passing experience. I especially like writing down whom I've flown with (as a student, WSO, instructor, wingman, whatever) as that is interesting to look back at. Your comments will also be a great source for finding stories to tell at your airline interview someday.
12-26-2006, 01:20 AM
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The AETC 240-5 (Summary Record of Training) is the only thing I've dealt with from an SUPT TIMS gradebook...
12-26-2006, 05:58 AM
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Are you kidding?? Unlike a paper logbook, the "Comments" section of my Excel logbook is unlimited! I can keep a 20-page "there I was" story for each flight if I want...unlike in a paper log, where I have to fit all my comments into a box the size of an elongated postage stamp.
I do, however, agree that your logbook will be a source of great reflection with passing experience. I especially like writing down whom I've flown with (as a student, WSO, instructor, wingman, whatever) as that is interesting to look back at. Your comments will also be a great source for finding stories to tell at your airline interview someday.
I do, however, agree that your logbook will be a source of great reflection with passing experience. I especially like writing down whom I've flown with (as a student, WSO, instructor, wingman, whatever) as that is interesting to look back at. Your comments will also be a great source for finding stories to tell at your airline interview someday.
And a 20 page 'there I was'? Wow..
12-26-2006, 10:28 AM
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01-06-2007, 09:09 PM
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Hey Ricky. On the T-38 side of the house we have nothing filled in under the #1, #2, etc. I can check with the T-37 and T-1 dudes. Which jet(s) do you have items printed under the #1, #2, etc.?
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