Thread: Lost log books
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Old January 25th 07, 05:42 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Jim Macklin
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Default Lost log books

We kept the aircraft logs in the airplane. Shop records on
paper and computer where the back-up. Without the logbooks,
how do you do a proper pre-flight? Any school that locks
the logs away from the student or a renter acts as though
they something to hide.


"C J Campbell" wrote
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e.com...
| On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:57:14 -0800, Lou wrote
| (in article
.com):
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| The flight school I work at has all the logbooks for
their planes
| stored in one room by the maintenance hangar. If that
thing goes up in
| flames, the planes are no less flyable.
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| I would hope someone was smart enough to buy a fire
proof safe for that
| room.
| If they did go up in flames how would your student take
their
| checkride?
| Lou
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| I have never seen a flight school keeping aircraft
logbooks in a fireproof
| safe. Usually these logbooks occupy several shelves in the
maintenance office
| and are much too large to put in any reasonable sort of
safe.
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| Logbooks get lost, destroyed, or whatever, all of the
time.
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