Lost logbook in fire is the new dog ate my homework

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seriously, why do aircraft logbooks always gets destroyed in fire? not water/coffee/beer, not someone lost it, not someone stole it... its always fire.
 
WannFly said:
seriously, why do aircraft logbooks always gets destroyed in fire? not water/coffee/beer, not someone lost it, not someone stole it... its always fire.
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I left mine in the courtesy car on my solo long XC! Didn't get burned, I eventually got it back.(after I gave up and started a new one and got my CFI to sign off on all the stuff he had already signed off on).
 
exncsurfer said:
I left mine in the courtesy car on my solo long XC! Didn't get burned, I eventually got it back.(after I gave up and started a new one and got my CFI to sign off on all the stuff he had already signed off on).
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you mean your pilot log book...
 
In today's digital age of digital cameras, scanners, cloud storage and backup technology there is zero excuse in loosing your log books. The physical log books, yes...loosing the data and/or contents just means you are complacent and/or lazy.

If the technology is beyond you, just ask a teenager for help.
 
WannFly said:
you mean your pilot log book...
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Oh ok, nevermind, you're talking about aircraft logs. Yea fire sounds like as good an excuse as any, I guess it sounds better than saying I lost it.
 
paflyer said:
'Burned' logbooks tell no tales...
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Right. But if they contained documentation of mandatory ADs and the like having been performed, they can cost plenty when they're gone.

Rich
 
RJM62 said:
Right. But if they contained documentation of mandatory ADs and the like having been performed, they can cost plenty when they're gone.

Rich
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I'm sure that went into the equation in deciding the logs were "irretrievable."
 
RJM62 said:
Right. But if they contained documentation of mandatory ADs and the like having been performed, they can cost plenty when they're gone.

Rich
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I spent 2.5 AMU's on a complete re-inspection of every active AD applicable to my Cherokee because I didn't trust the people who signed them off as "OK".

Turns out there was a bolt that should have been replaced back in the 60's and never was. Every mechanic just kept signing off on "complies with all active ad's" etc...
 
Had a friend's logbooks get heavily water damaged at the maintenance shop when it caught on fire.
I think the insurer paid to have them professionally recovered.

The shops I have usually have a fire safe to store the paperwork in. However, seeing how bad the shop nearby that burned (it burned/melted through the steel of the building), I'm not sure a 60 min or whatever fire safe may have helped.
 
This was my favorite one (found on a prebuy). Engine log was only half-burned:

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exncsurfer said:
Oh ok, nevermind, you're talking about aircraft logs. Yea fire sounds like as good an excuse as any, I guess it sounds better than saying I lost it.
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well you actually brought up a great example that can happen to anyone.... I am going to start taking pictures of my log book to maintain a digital copy
 
WannFly said:
well you actually brought up a great example that can happen to anyone.... I am going to start taking pictures of my log book to maintain a digital copy
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Yea, luckily I had been duplicating everything in a google doc spreadsheet, still, photos of all the sigs would've been nice to not have to bother the CFI with a rebuild of the logs and solo sign-offs. And also, luckily I eventually got it back, some how it took 4 or 5 weeks to overnight a package from the FBO, haha.
 
We had a guy at our local field lose everything when the city hanger burned down. One of the old timer machanics saw him filling his three planes with fuel before locking the hanger door the night of the fire.

One of the only things that supposedly survived was some logbooks in a metal cabinet.
 
ARFlyer said:
We had a guy at our local field lose everything when the city hanger burned down. One of the old timer machanics saw him filling his three planes with fuel before locking the hanger door the night of the fire.

One of the only things that supposedly survived was some logbooks in a metal cabinet.
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Put more fuel outside the tanks than in???
 
Fearless Tower said:
Put more fuel outside the tanks than in???
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Yep, that's what the machanic said. So the town rumor among the old timer guys is he burned it down for the insurance.

This was way back in the 80s. You can still see the burned concrete and the rails of the old doors.

Got to love small town airports! LOL!
 
I was looking at a Luscombe one time. The story the guy told me was that someone had broken into his hangar and stole a few things. One of them just happened to be the logbooks! I wasn't interested in a plane without logbooks, so I kept looking. Then I found out later, this was a plane that had gone into a pond at one of our regular fly-ins, something he hadn't bothered to mention. Aviation is a small world.
 
The original logbooks for my Conquest were lost/misplaced/missing, it was sold that way and a year or so later they were found! The owner at the time refused to buy them, even though he'd gotten a big discount on the purchase price. Long story made shorter, the guy kept the logbooks at his home or hangar in New Orleans, Katrina ate them!!:eek::eek:
 
Took me 15 minutes to take pictures of everything and email to myself. And I'm closing in on 40.No excuse...
 
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