IMC time...to log or not to log?

[2.5milefinal]

If you have been keeping a good up-to-date logbook...keep doing it. As of late I wish I had.

[Colonel Sanders]

And keep them looking sharp, with plenty of white-out!

[2.5milefinal]

I had to look twice at that picture. For a second there I thought you somehow got a snapshot of my desk.

[KK7]

Have a look. No ifr approach column

http://www.aviationworld.net/default/pi ... r-blk.html

There appears to be several empty columns that you can add anything you like, such as IFR approaches.

[ahramin]

Co-joe I very carefully logged my first 100 hours of IMC and got exactly the same figure. 10% of IFR time was in actual IMC. I guess a navajo on the coast might me as high as 30% though as I think you and I were flying the same type for the same company. Now it's probably closer to 1%. I should keep track for a couple months and see .

Burninggoats, I can't say I take much pride in each hour of IMC time I've survived. When you get to any job flying an IFR aircraft full time it stops having significance. Keep in mind the context of the original question: The OP already has 250 hours IMC time, which indicates several years of busy IFR flying minimum.

[burninggoats]

I have a job flying full time IFR. I still like to look back on the flights and times I do.

[fabichoux]

because my logbook does not have an ifr approach column

never seen that before.
do you have a logbook ?

....yes

Have a look. No ifr approach column

http://www.aviationworld.net/default/pi ... r-blk.html

What do you think those empty columns (right of "instrument" columns) are for???

[ahramin]

I have a job flying full time IFR. I still like to look back on the flights and times I do.

That's cool. I knew a twin otter pilot who would log each deadhead on Canadian North's 737 and keep the boarding passes. He had records going back decades of the registration, departure, destination, flight time, and flight number of every plane he'd ever sat in.

I keep my logbook as an excel spreadsheet and have pictures of many of the planes I've flown embedded in it. Click on the registration and you see a picture of the plane.

[AuxBatOn]

That's cool. I knew a twin otter pilot who would log each deadhead on Canadian North's 737 and keep the boarding passes. He had records going back decades of the registration, departure, destination, flight time, and flight number of every plane he'd ever sat in.

I keep my logbook as an excel spreadsheet and have pictures of many of the planes I've flown embedded in it. Click on the registration and you see a picture of the plane.

One is logging for what you do for a living. The other one is for pleasure. Be accurate in what you do. Writing down your actual times takes literally half a second. It doesn't take a lot of time. It shows professionalism and attention to details.

[Nark]

I keep my logbook as an excel spreadsheet and have pictures of many of the planes I've flown embedded in it. Click on the registration and you see a picture of the plane.

How do you do that? I use excel as well for a logbook.