VOR check logging

[benyflyguy]

where does everyone log their VOR checks? I do a dual check someone routinely and always within 30 days of an IFR flight. I read the FAR’s and it says logbook or “other record”. What is “other record”?? I fly a club plane. So I have been loggin it on the notebook we have in the plane to record the tach time for billing. I thought that was a good idea until the guy who does the billing swapped out the notebook for a new one!!! My log book doesn’t really count does it? The actual logbooks aren’t kept with the plane but there is a folder with the POH and other documents behind the passenger seat-I guess I could put the into on a a paper in there right?

 

[James331]

I have used these, lives in the glove box, I do all my VOR logs, nav database updates, keep track of short term due stuff like oil, annual, 100hr, elt etc

https://us.moleskine.com/en/12-month-daily-planner-black/p0951

 

[Stuart Fraley]

A sticky note is good enough.

 

[JOhnH]

I just created and printed off a spread sheet named "VOR LOG" and fill in the dates and specifics of each check one line. Each page holds about 45 lines.
I'd post it, but after printing off a half dozen copies, my disk crashed and that is one of the things I never restored.

 

[SbestCFII]

Ditto, I made a log in Word and that's it.

 

[chemgeek]

I keep mine in a 3x5 spiral notebook along with annual squawks.

 

[Dave Theisen]

With modern equipment, isn’t this req a little antiquated?

 

[James331]

With modern equipment, isn’t this req a little antiquated?

no

 

[benyflyguy]

With modern equipment, isn’t this req a little antiquated?

Here is a nice article aopa put out a little while ago.
https://pilot-protection-services.a...-day-vor-checks-still-required-for-ifr-flight

I guess if you only use gps and only so RNAV approaches then u might not need it but want to use any ground based navigation then you have to do the checks.
Silly to think this way about regs but I sometime imagine if NTSB is writing a report about my f-up, what will they say?? One less thing will be that they couldn’t find documentation of a VOR check for five years, lol

 

[Dave Theisen]

Just sayin’ , in 35 years of flying, I’ve never found one to be out of tolerance.

 

[Clip4]

Buy a $1 monthly planner.

 

[chemgeek]

Just sayin’ , in 35 years of flying, I’ve never found one to be out of tolerance.

You never owned a Narco NAV-11 or NAV-12. I've never found a relatively modern unit out of tolerance.

 

[flyingron]

In my rental days, we kept them on the receipt book cover. In private ownership, I have a small notebook.

My favorite quirk in the rules on this is the use of the word "intended" before "departure." I was never sure if this was to invalidate VOR checks done prior to unintentional departures or to keep you from doing checks at airports you never intended to depart from.