The triumphs, the stressful moments, the sublime, the scary: every time you take a withdrawal out of the bag of luck and convert it into a deposit into the bag of experience is summed up in a short line in a logbook. Trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck." Your logbook is that transaction ledger.
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There is an old, anonymous aviation adage that goes, "You start with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. That foggy approach into Galveston where ATC's vectors misled you and the pilot you were with into confusing the FAF for the IAF so you saw the lights of the airport slide underneath you through a break in the fog several miles ahead of where you expected them to be, leading to your first real missed approach in actual IMC. That sunset on a day so clear and perfectly calm where the sun happened to align perfectly, silhouetting the buildings of downtown Toledo a hundred miles to the west. The ferry flight to Florida the day after Thanksgiving where the 182 picked up more unforecast ice than I have yet seen on the Dash-8 in months of Northeast winter flying. That trip around Tampa Bay and up the beaches on the Gulf on the honeymoon. That first time taking up a passenger after the big checkride. Not only does it contain the required information in "a manner acceptable to the Administrator" to prove that you're eligible for your pilot's certificate, it also contains a treasure trove of memories.
Michael Parfit, "The Corn was Two Feet Below the Wheels ", Smithsonian Magazine (May 2000)Ī logbook is the most important thing in a pilot's life.
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