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Logbook Entries and Certificate Endorsements

Objective

OBJECTIVE

Logbook entries and certificate endorsements discuss the necessary entries instructors must make in their student’s logbooks as well as the endorsements required for different situations.

It is important that the instructor understand the requirements to keep the student’s logbook and training in order, not only for the student’s well being but also to comply with the FARs.

1. Required logbook entries for instruction given

logbook entries

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Step 1

The training time must be logged in a logbook and must include a description of the training given, the length of the training lesson, and the authorized instructor’s signature, certificate number, and certificate expiration date.

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Step 2

Logbook entries must include:

  • Date, Type and Identification of aircraft
  • Type of Experience (Solo, PIC, etc.)
  • Total Flight Time or Lesson Time and Flight Conditions (Day, Night, Instrument, etc.)
  • Location of Departure and Arrival
  • The name of safety pilot, if required

Student Pilot

2. Student Pilot

Certificate Endorsements

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Step 1

As of April 2016, flight instructors will no longer endorse student pilot certificates, but will make those endorsements in student pilot’s logbooks.

i. FAR 61.87: A student pilot may not operate an aircraft in solo flight unless he/she has

received:

a. An endorsement from an authorized instructor on his or her student pilot certificate

for the specific make and model aircraft to be flown within the 90 days preceding

the date of the flight.

Step 2

ii. FAR 61.93: Solo Cross Country

a. A student pilot must have a solo cross-country endorsement from the authorized instructor who conducted the training that is placed in the person’s logbook for the specific category of aircraft to be flown

b. A student pilot must have a solo cross-country endorsement from an authorized instructor that is placed in that person’s logbook for the specific make and model of aircraft to be flown

c. For each cross-country flight, the authorized instructor who reviews the cross-country planning must make an endorsement in the person's logbook after reviewing that person's cross-country planning

  • Examples are shown in AC 61-65

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Practical Test

3. Preparation of a Practical Test Recommendation

PREREQUISITES FOR PRACTICAL TESTS

A. Each applicant must have received an endorsement from an authorized instructor who certified that the applicant received and logged the required flight time/training in preparation for the practical test within 2 calendar months preceding the month of application of the test and is prepared for the practical test

B. All applicants must have the required endorsements specified in Part 61 for the aircraft category, class, rating, or privilege of certification sought

C. The instructor and student must complete the IACRA rating application online (iacra.faa.gov)

i. Or, the instructor/student must complete/sign a Form 8710-1

a. This is given to the examiner at the practical test

b. Most examiners no longer use this method, IACRA is preferred

D. the applicant must hold at least a current 3rd class medical certificate

E. Reapplying

i. All applicants who reapply for a retest must present another endorsement stating the

necessary training has been given and they are prepared for the practical test

a. A practical test, whether satisfactory or not, uses up the endorsement for that test

b. An instructor’s recommendation is required for each retest

Practical test endorsement

61.183(f)

4. Flight Review Endorsements

§ 61.56 Flight review.

(c) no person may act as pilot in command of an aircraft unless, since the beginning of the 24th calendar month before the month in which that pilot acts as pilot in command, that person has -

(1) Accomplished a flight review given in an aircraft for which that pilot is rated by an authorized instructor and

(2) A logbook endorsed from an authorized instructor who gave the review certifying that the person has satisfactorily

completed the review.

Flight

review

5. Flight Instructor Records (FAR 61.189)

flight

instructor

A. A flight instructor must maintain a record in a logbook or a separate document containing the following:

i. The name of each person whose logbook that instructor has endorsed for solo flight privileges, and

the date of the endorsement

ii. The name of each person that instructor has endorsed for a knowledge test or practical test, and

the record shall also indicate the kind of test, the date, and the results

B. Each flight instructor must retain the records required for at least 3 years

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