Found my old logbook and the total hours hit a number I never saw coming

I was cleaning out my toolbox at the hangar in Mobile last week and found my first logbook from when I got my A&P. I flipped through it and decided to add up all the inspection and repair hours I'd written down. The total came to 9,872 hours. It just hit me that I've been turning wrenches on planes for almost ten thousand hours. I remember my first solo sign-off on a Cessna 172 annual like it was yesterday. How do you guys keep track of your time in the trade?

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spencer4006d ago

Honestly, just keep adding to that same logbook, even if you have to tape in extra pages. Tbh it's the only way to really see the full story later.

grant4786d ago

Nah, a single messy book gets impossible to find anything in. Spencer400's method sounds like a recipe for chaos. I started fresh notebooks for each big project or year, and it's way cleaner. You can actually go back and see a clear timeline without flipping through a hundred taped-in scraps.

ivanbell6d ago

My old lab notebook from college is exactly what grant478 is describing, just a disaster of taped-in printouts and scribbled notes. I wasted so much time trying to find one specific protocol. Spencer400's idea of a full story sounds nice, but I need to actually find things again. Separate project books saved my sanity at my last job.