"Jose" wrote in message
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It's probably not necessary to list t/o and landings separately. Except
when you're in the air, we generally assume those numbers are equal.
Counting approaches would make more sense.

What does make sense is counting night takeoffs and night landings. Often
overlooked, night takeoffs are required for currency.

True, sort of. Why "sort of? For many pilots one still doesn't need to
track those separately.

I only log a night landing as such if I also had a night takeoff. I can't
rule out that I may one day actually wake up early enough to have a night
takeoff without a night landing, but it has never happened, and seems very
unlikely. So I can safely log restrict my logging of night landings to
those that also include a night takeoff, and ensure compliance with the
night currency rules without sacrificing any night landings that might
otherwise have been useful.

Pilots who may have night takeoffs without night landings may find they need
the "day takeoff, night landing" flights to be logged more precisely.
However, I do suspect that for most of THOSE pilots, they are flying so
much, maintaining night currency isn't really much of an issue however they
log it.

Oddly enough, the paper logbooks I've seen don't actually provide an easy
way to track night currency (I put all of my landings in the same column,
but water and night landings use a special notation to distinguish them).
But I do have a "Night Landings" column in my Excel spreadsheet (and no
record of takeoffs at all).

Pete