How do I transfer my flight traning hours into my logbook?

[Nadir Ali]

I am a student pilot with almost 70 hours flying time. I've managed to transfer some of my hours from my PTR into my logbook when there was an instructor available to show me the steps, but to make it quicker I'd rather just complete the transfer of hours from my home.

Since I first started the transfer in 2012 and have been away from flight school for a while, I indeed have forgotten the steps. Can you guys please help me please?

Are there any links or videos (none that I know of) that explain how to do this?

Thanks a lot guys.

[scraps96]

Release the hounds....

[AuxBatOn]

Dude, you should quit flying immediately if you canot figureout the simplest tasks, like filling a logbook. The columns are labelled, how difficult can it be?!

[Shiny Side Up]

When did it dawn on you that it might be important to keep a record of your flying? Was it never mentioned in training? I'm at a loss for words. You're at 70 hours... do you have a license yet? Have you went solo? How much money have you spent on this endeavor? For a person so enthusiastic about flying, surely you must have did some research on how flight training is conducted.

Too many questions. *sigh*

[CpnCrunch]

It usually gives instructions at the beginning of the logbook.

[SuperchargedRS]

When did it dawn on you that it might be important to keep a record of your flying? Was it never mentioned in training? I'm at a loss for words. You're at 70 hours... do you have a license yet? Have you went solo? How much money have you spent on this endeavor? For a person so enthusiastic about flying, surely you must have did some research on how flight training is conducted.

Too many questions. *sigh*

Agreed

[zulutime]

I am a student pilot with almost 70 hours flying time. I've managed to transfer some of my hours from my PTR into my logbook when there was an instructor available to show me the steps, but to make it quicker I'd rather just complete the transfer of hours from my home.

Since I first started the transfer in 2012 and have been away from flight school for a while, I indeed have forgotten the steps. Can you guys please help me please?

Are there any links or videos (none that I know of) that explain how to do this?

Thanks a lot guys.

Not sure if you've been on AVCANADA for a while but you can see by some of the replies there are those online who would rather be negative than helpful. That's an ongoing theme on this site. I assume you are trying to transfer your time from the schools student log book to your own logbook. It would have been helpful to do that as soon as you started flying (i.e. keep your time in your own logbook from the start), but at 70 hours it's not really a big deal to do it now. As someone already wrote, the columns are straight forward. Especially for a PPL student. Everything is going to be DAY - DUAL unless you were in the plane by yourself and then that goes under DAY - PIC. Use the decimal system and not the actual minutes (i.e. 2 hours 24 minutes would be written 2.4 not 2:24). Of course, you can always sit down with your instructor and go through it with him/her. They are there to help. 0

Good luck in obtaining your PPL if not already completed and welcome to the world of aviation.

[TG]

You must recon that it is a pretty trivial thing to do.

70hrs!? Next it will be 5000 from your paper logbook to a digital one

[Nadir Ali]

Wow this forum is indeed a hot bed for trolls. Gee and I thought History of PIA was infested with trolls. For your info I quit flying in 2010 temporarily to attend university, unlike you punks who live in your mothers basements rather than work or study.

And yeah I am committed to my flight training.

I had earned my student permit, but had difficulty overcoming the spin maneuver and as also mentioned left my flight school to attend to university. I'm not finished with university, but hopefully will have completed my PPL soon.

And thanks to the gentlemen (or/and women) who left me the useful replies.

[AuxBatOn]

Wow this forum is indeed a hot bed for trolls. Gee and I thought History of PIA was infested with trolls. For your info I quit flying in 2010 temporarily to attend university, unlike you punks who live in your mothers basements rather than work or study.

And yeah I am committed to my flight training.

I had earned my student permit, but had difficulty overcoming the spin maneuver and as also mentioned left my flight school to attend to university. I'm not finished with university, but hopefully will have completed my PPL soon.

And thanks to the gentlemen (or/and women) who left me the useful replies.

Sorry to be blunt. As a pilot, you will need to have basic analytical and problem solving skills. Not everything is a checklist or a recipe. There are a couple of things in your posts that lead me to believe you do not have those skills:

1- you can't figure out by yourself how to fill a logbook. This is, for the most part, self explanatory. For any ambiguities on what you should log your time as, the Canadian Aviation Regulations are available.

2- After 70 hours, you don't have a license yet. This is 1 and a half the minimum amount of time for a PPL and you don't seem to be close to finishing

3- You have difficulty overcoming the "spin" manoeuvre. This is a more dynamic thing to do in an aircraft where some analysis is required. Perhaps you don't have the analytical skills.

In any case, I don't want people who can't be presented a non-standard situation and make a right decision. I have met people like you (at least the way you transpire here) before and they just freeze and cannot make a decision for their life (literally) because the situation they are presented with doesn't fit in one of the hundreds of recipes they memorized.

[Shiny Side Up]

there are those online who would rather be negative than helpful.

Forgive me, I just get a little upset these days, when it seems like the bar has been lowered again. I could have seen if we had one of the old definitions of dual questions, the difference between PIC and solo. Or even whether blue pen or black is acceptable. I could give encouragement anif this was "hey, I have my first flying lesson tomorrow, I bought a log book and I want to make sure I fill it out right, any pointers?"

But no, sorry this is another of the questions that not only can someone not figure out something very basic - they have the PTR! - but also shows well on the way to becoming part of the problem with aviation as a whole. I get people all the time walking through the door with these same sorts of issues. The big question is why don't people feel the need for a record when they're spending this kind of money?! They wait until the problems become huge until something twinges.

Some tough love is in order, because the soft touch failed them off the start.

The problem is, they can't accept that they f@cked up from the start. The game of aviation is for keeps, it doesn't tolerate this kind of ignorance, obliviousness or stupidity.

PTRS look like log books don't they?

Edit: and for the record, "earning" your SPP isn't an accomplishment. 14 year olds do that.

[GyvAir]

Methinks you guys have been had.

[cdnpilot77]

SSU, I think you need to make a YouTube video of how to transfer info from a PTR to a personal logbook....while you're at it, can you show me how to properly place the boom mic in front of my mouth? I can't quite get it in the "right" spot.

[Shiny Side Up]

Methinks you guys have been had.

You'd hope so, but I had someone ask me this a few days ago. And they weren't the first person to ask. The way people throw money at flight training is retarded. I know that word is insensitive, but it's the only one that's appropriate to describe what happens.

[GyvAir]

You'd hope so, but...

Unfortunately, I think you're right. Smelled like troll to me, but a couple minutes spent on google seems to fully corroborate his story.

[Hockaloogie]

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[all_ramped_up]

a ballpoint pen?

or am i totally oversimplifying this? worked for my GPL, PPL and AME logbooks...

[praveen4143]

I'm going to get flamed for my reply, but here goes.

As a flight instructor myself, I make it a point to show my students how to many an entry the first couple of times. After that whenever I make an entry into the PTR, I ask them if they have made their entries. Also ask them to verify it against the PTR once in a while (or I end up doing it myself if I have a few minutes on hand as it doesn't take too long if you do it once every page).

Now if the case for the OP is that the instructor never showed you in the first place, then you probably picked the wrong instructor to fly those 70 hours. If you run into this SoB (or DoB), please don't train with this person ever again.

But if it were the case of you just being plain lazy, then stop being a lazy ass, open your PTR, compare columns and make entries into your personal logbook, then pay some poor instructor for an hour of his/her time to look through it (even if it might only take 10 minutes to check, please pay for a whole hour, it's only fair!). Then curse yourself for being a lazy ass.

[JasonE]

When I did my PPL written, there was a guy there for his commercial written who hadn't totalled up ANY of his pages from day 1...Hope I don't ever have to fly with him!