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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. Jose -- Quantum Mechanics is like this: God =does= play dice with the universe, except there's no God, and there's no dice. And maybe there's no universe. for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |
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"Jose" wrote in message
m... 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 |
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You can also have the pilot controlling the airplane during the
takeiff, and the co-pilot controlling the airplane during the landing. Me and my instructor have done this a few times. My night takeoff total and my night landing total are probably a little different. |
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