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A few words about logbooks.
Your aviation career is measured and recorded in your logbook(s). As far as the FAA is concerned, if it is not in the logbook, it did not happen when it comes to licenses. If a flight is not recorded, you cannot count the time toward the required experience for a license.
If your instructor doesn't sign off on what happened, you will have to pay for this instruction a second time.
Whenever you go flying take your logbook with you. When you get on the ground, get your instructor to sign it. Right then. (It is easy to put off. Sometimes things get forgotten. Do it now!)
Religiously log every flight AND ground instruction event.
Part of the requirements for a private license is ground instruction.
I would inquire about the ground instruction at your school as well as the flight instruction portion.
In many ways, this is equally, if not more important than the flight time. It's sometimes dry and not as exciting as flying, but it is less expensive and it is easier to find time for it.
It is much easier to learn in a quiet environment rather than over the roar of an engine.
Find out how the ground instruction is given and pick a situation that is most condusive to learning for you.
And LOG EVERY LESSON.
I would also suggest that you keep a SECOND LOGBOOK to record your MAINTENANCE CAREER.
Log everything you do when you wash the airplane, change the oil, do preventative maintenance.
When you work in the shop with the mechanic, write a detailed description of what you did and ask him to sign it.
You may decide someday that you would like to apply for a mechanics license. Time passes quickly. Experience requirements under proposal are 4000 hours experience for a mechanics certificate.
A well kept logbook will document your experience and help you in meeting the experience requirements of the licenses you apply for.
Think of your logbooks as being a form of a savings account.
It is money in the bank.
They also make great gifts to get a friend started flying.
I like to give logbooks whenever I take someone flying for an introductory flight. It can start someone on a flying career.
Kids love them. Everybody knows a real pilot keeps a logbook. Give a kid a start. It takes a long time to build the experience it takes to make a career. Help them start early.
If you have questions you may E-Mail me at
atpcfii@ferrypilot.cjb.net
Fred H. Quarles ATP-CFII (resume)
888-595-9131
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