Remarkable Past

Logbooks’ legal purpose shouldn’t prevent you from learning from yourself

Recently when closing out a logbook and starting a new one, I wandered back through the “remarks” column to see what memories might come forth. I was surprised, however, when it turned out that the majority of my most memorable flights had nothing in that column, or the remarks were limited to instrument approach flown or some other flight minutia.

The reason, of course, was because the flights that stand out most vividly usually involve something I don’t really want to reduce to writing. Yeah, these are the flights where you drive away from the airport with the unsettling feeling that you’ve just dodged disaster.

It’s interesting how those disasters evolve as the years pass and the ho...