Record-keeping
Each person shall document the following time in a manner "acceptable to the Administrator":
- Training and experience used for the requirements of a certificate, rating, or flight review
- The experience required for meeting the recent flight experience requirements
Logbook entries shall include:
- General information
- Date
- Total flight time or lesson time
- Location where the aircraft departed and arrived
- For lessons in a flight simulator, the location where the lesson occurred
- Type and identification of aircraft or flight simulator
- The name of a safety pilot (if required)
- Type of experience or training
- Solo
- Pilot in command
- Second in command
- Flight and ground training received from an authorized instructor
- Training received in a full flight simulator, flight training device, or aviation training device from an authorized instructor
- Flight conditions
- Day or night.
- Actual instrument.
- Simulated instrument conditions in flight, or flight simulator
* Night is defined as the period during the period beginning 1 hour after sunset and ending 1 hour before sunrise