The first entry in my first logbook, on the Piper Cub L-4 HB-ODC, dated 6 August 1979 is labelled “Vol d’introduction – Intro Flight” 
This picture shows all my paper logbooks… of note the red ones denote the first few years as a PPL, the blue ones used when I started flying for food 
Since those were filling up pretty fast, I went fully electronic in 2008, even copying all the entries of my paper logbooks into Logten Pro, the original program which I’m still using today. I’m fascinated at the ease any kind of stats can be pulled out of the electronic register, and whilst transferring the data I was able to correct more than one mistake in the totals
For licence renewal I usually print out the last 10 pages or so, and this has worked pretty good up to now…
Who asks this? very specialised
That particular question I made up on the spot. But there were some similarly ridiculous ones I needed to answer for the BASA process to get my French PPL.
This is a nice thread.
I have small UK hardback logbooks (I’m on my second). I consider them as a flying diary, with personal comments where appropriate, eg “First flight with my son”. In parallel I fill in an excel sheet should something happen to my actual logbooks. I find the former a pleasure and the latter a chore…
Regards, SD..
I started my PPL in 1999 and got an earlier edition of the ‘carnet de vol’ shown in the first post of this thread from DGAC. Since I’m only a PPL it’s still not filled up, and pn every page I replace the 19 to 20 for the year number :-)
I also replaced some of the column I’m unlikely to ever need to be able to log Seaplane hours separately as well as instruction separately.
I use a paper log book and logbook.aero – which automatically backs up to dropbox in Excel format after every new entry. GPS tracks are shown within logbook.aero and stored seperately on a HD at home as well as the SkyDemon debriefing packs.
