Originally Posted by Mr Rumbold

I could've sworn someone once said there was an electronic logbook that could basically download directly from Flica.. meaning if you're months/years behind, or of course doing it daily, you can just download from Flica to your logbook.. obviously you'd have to edit for stuff like if it was your landing, etc….
does that exist or was someone just saying something I misinterpreted?

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Also, apparently the answer is "yes" because everyone's stressing about these logbooks… but do these companies really want to see a log printout of every single flight you've ever done?? Can't they just say, "oh you've worked at XYZ regional for 5 years.. ok we'll just verify with your employer."
Maybe I've asked before.. I'm a little behind on mine and catching up, but these captains who say they haven't logged in 10 years or more but now want to move on… are they really trying to log every flight from that decade?? That won't be accurate - I can barely remember which legs I flew yesterday let alone from 8 years ago (?)

I'm assuming the little logbooks from the crew store that you jot down the block time, etc… is totally unprofessional to show up with. lol.

Originally Posted by AboveMins

There's that urban legend that some pilot showed up to an interview with a shoe box full of those little logbooks... I've always wondered if there was any truth to that.

Not sure how your airline does it, but with my company, the CA flies the first leg, then we switch off after each two legs. When I was behind on mine, I contacted aircrew records at my company for a print out. They sent back a mish-mash of random records with totals that eventually turned out to be off by a few thousand hours. Be leery of company records, especially if they're coming from a certain regional based in ATL.