Post-Checkride Logbook entries

[M20K]

Do you guys also log any Cross Country time for flights greater than 50 nm, 25 nm for sport pilots, or do you leave the Cross Country time blank after the checkride?

As others have said about logging, YES for insurance and currency. Also add comments about where you ate, what you saw, who was with you, etc., etc. It may not matter now, but years from now you'll be trying to remember what airport had that XXXX that was the best one you had ever had. And I'm assuming you're using ForeFlight or Garmin Pilot, so it only takes a couple of seconds to add the Next Flight.

As for XC flights, why would you leave it blank? Also, time to pull out the FARs and check out 91.1... Those 25nm and 50nm were those distances for specific TRAINING requirements!!! Any flight from one airport to another is a XC flight. My shortest XC is 8.4nm and I probably have some where I flew well over 150nm and it was considered a "local" flight since I landed at the airport I departed from.

Also, just to confirm, you did log your Checkride as PIC and NOT Dual, correct? Every once in a while you hear about someone incorrectly logging it as either just Dual or PIC and Dual.

 

[Larry Wilkinson]

Early on I did not log all my flights. Flying would come and go for years because I was either traveling a lot with work or just could not afford it with raising a family. I never dreamed that 30 years later I would own my on airplane. Insurance rates go down as your hours go up. I have averaged around 100 hours a year in that past 5 years. Insurance has gone down, could be a little lower if I had logged all my flights!

 

[455 Bravo Uniform]

Log it all as if I was still training (including 50 nm XC). I make notes about whatever was interesting about the flight (who I was with, why I flew, weather, whatever).

 

[Brad W]

Also, just to confirm, you did log your Checkride as PIC and NOT Dual, correct? Every once in a while you hear about someone incorrectly logging it as either just Dual or PIC and Dual.

Unless the ride was a bust, right?

 

[RussR]

Unless the ride was a bust, right?

Result doesn't matter, it's still loggable as PIC. Now if the examiner actually took the controls and flew the plane back for landing, the yes, that portion would not be loggable as anything by the applicant.

 

[M20K]

Unless the ride was a bust, right?

Buzzzzz.... Wrong. You still log PIC.

The DPE is representing the Administrator and is not even a required crew member, just watching how you do. And you are at the Controls and are the "acting" PIC for the checkride flight. So even if you fail the ride, you were still the one at the Controls, there was no Dual being given and you were Not Solo. So one of those legal twists where you log PIC, you took a passenger and you didn't walk away with a certificate.