Sender: <marv@lancaironline.net> (Marvin Kaye)
To: lml
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 16:23:50 -0400
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From: RWolf99@aol.com
Subject: Aircraft Log
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I have been following the short discussion on builders logs and am getting 
concerned.  A little clarification may help many of us.

For instance, I always thought the photo log was to show the airplane 
gradually coming together, and I took lots of pictures of airplane parts 
without being in the pictures myself.  An EAA buddy told me "No, they don't 
want to see that, they want to see tools in your hand and dust in your hair 
so they know YOU built the airplane and not someone else."  Now I have my 
wife take pictures of me working on the plane whenever I can talk her into it.

I have bought an aircraft logbook, which presently has no entries except for 
the one when an EAA Tech Counselor inspected the plane before I activated the 
hydraulic system the first time.

What sorts of things should I be recording in the aircraft logbook?  Leak 
checks of wing tanks?  Quantity checks of fuel tanks?  Rigging the controls?  
Flap deflection functional tests and rigging?  Landing gear functional tests? 
 Engine runs?  What else?

Why aren't any of these events recorded in my Cessna 150's logbook?  Or is 
that stuff assumed when a type-certificated airplane is produced by a company 
with a Production Certificate?

- Rob Wolf