Here’s a hint for you: using a military-style logbook is great if you’re planning to fly for the military after you get out of the military (that was a weak attempt at humor), but if you want to fly for anyone else, you probably want a civilian-style logbook that will allow you to track all the categories of flight time the airlines are going to care about. Instead I bought a military-style logbook at Army Air Force Exchange Services (AAFES).
Unfortunately I wasn’t smart enough to use a civilian-style logbook. That turned out to be a good piece of advice, since the air force flight records are not nearly detailed enough to fill out an airline application. I was fortunate enough to have someone tell me way back in air force pilot training to keep my own logbook even though my flight time would be tracked by Air Force Aviation Resource Management (commonly referred to as “flight records”). If I chose to keep them separate, how could I show my total flight times in various categories such as PIC, multi-engine, and cross- country, etc?
To make matters worse, I had about 300 hours of civilian flight time before entering the air force, and I needed to figure out if I wanted to combine my civilian and air force flying into one logbook or keep them separate. I could have included logbooks as a subsection of chapter 2, but logbooks are a topic that warrants its own chapter.Īs I started making my transition toward the end of my military flying career, I discovered that everything I knew about logging flight time in the air force was not applicable to the way the airlines wanted me to calculate my flight times. Logbooks are probably the most confusing and frustrating aspect of transitioning from the military to the airlines.
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