Aircraft Journey Log
$29.95
A Transport Canada compliant aircraft journey log in a hard binding, built to live in the aircraft rather than on a shelf. Every column CAR 605.94 and Schedule I require, in the simplified modern layout.
- Hard bound cover, 8.75 x 11.25 inches, about 7/16 of an inch thick
- Flight entries, air time, maintenance and defect recording
- Simplified new style format permitted by the CARs
- Sized to live in the aircraft and survive being handled
- Soft cover version: Aircraft Journey Logbook, $24.95
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56 in stock (can be backordered)
Description
Aircraft Journey Log, Hard Cover
Every Canadian registered aircraft needs a journey log. It is not a formality and it is not optional: it is the aircraft’s legal record of what it has done and what has been done to it, and it is the first thing an inspector asks for and the first thing a buyer wants to see.
This is the hard bound version. The pages and the column layout are identical to our soft cover log, but the binding is built for a log that lives in the aircraft, gets opened with cold hands, and spends its life in a seat pocket rather than a filing cabinet. At about 7/16 of an inch thick it holds a long run of entries without becoming awkward to carry.
It uses the simplified modern format the CARs permit, which is a meaningful improvement on the older layouts. Fewer columns to misread means fewer entries made wrong in a hurry on a cold ramp.
What the regulations actually require
Four parts of the Canadian Aviation Regulations govern this book. Worth knowing them properly, because most owners know the first one and get caught by the third.
CAR 605.92, keeping the log
The owner of an aircraft is required to keep a journey log. The obligation sits with the owner, not the pilot who happened to fly it last.
CAR 605.94 and Schedule I, what goes in it
Schedule I sets out the particulars: flight details, air time, maintenance performed, defects and abnormal occurrences, who enters each one, and when. This log gives you a column for every one of them.
CAR 605.95, carrying it on board
No takeoff unless the journey log is on board, with one main exception: when it is not planned that the aircraft will land and shut down anywhere other than the point of departure.
CAR 605.94(3), keeping the entries
Entries must be retained for not less than one year. In practice, an unbroken journey log history is one of the strongest things you can hand a buyer at resale.
The one most owners get wrong
Circuits and local flights back to your home field can leave the log behind. The moment you plan to land and shut down somewhere else, even for a coffee two aerodromes over, the log comes with you.
That is the practical argument for a hard cover. A book that is going in and out of the aircraft needs a spine that tolerates it.
Hard cover or soft cover?
Identical compliance, identical columns, different binding. Pick on how the aircraft is flown rather than on price, because the gap is five dollars and the log will outlive the decision either way.
- Hard cover, this one, $29.95. For a log that lives in the aircraft year round and gets handled constantly. The durable choice.
- Soft cover, $24.95. The economical choice for an owner who keeps a tidy log and replaces it on schedule.
Journey log or pilot logbook?
New owners sometimes conflate the two, and they are entirely different documents. The journey log belongs to the aircraft and records its flights, air time and maintenance history. Your own flight time belongs in your personal pilot logbook. An owner who flies needs both.
If there are still ratings on your list, our ground school courses cover the air law behind every entry in this book, and the rest of our aviation books and supplies are in the pilot shop.
Questions about the journey log
Does this meet Transport Canada journey log requirements?
Yes. It carries every particular Schedule I of the CARs requires, in the simplified format the regulations permit, so compliance is a matter of filling in the columns rather than working out what belongs where.
When does the journey log have to be on board?
Whenever you plan to land and shut down somewhere other than your point of departure. Under CAR 605.95 you may not take off without it, except where the flight is planned to return to where it started. Circuits and local flights home are the exception, not the rule.
Who is responsible for keeping it?
The owner, under CAR 605.92. Individual entries are made by the people the regulation specifies, which for flight particulars is normally the pilot in command, but the obligation to maintain the log sits with whoever owns the aircraft.
How long do I need to keep the entries?
Not less than one year under CAR 605.94(3). Keep them far longer in practice. A complete journey log history is worth real money at resale and is the only proof you have of what the aircraft has done.
What happens when it fills up?
The old volume goes on the shelf and the chronology continues in the next one. Keep the filled volumes together with the aircraft’s technical records. They go with the aircraft when it is sold.
Is this the same as the soft cover one you sell?
Same pages, same columns, same compliance. The difference is the binding and five dollars. This one is for an aircraft that is flown a lot and a log that gets handled; the soft cover is the economical choice if yours stays tidy.
3 reviews for Aircraft Journey Log
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Joy Smith (verified owner) –
Really well put together
Bernie (verified owner) –
good quality
Glenn (verified owner) –
The log book was better than expected because it has a hard cover great quality log book