E logbook

[Flavius 0]

As I start to log my jumps in a spreadsheet (easier to add up delay times), I was still writing in my paper logbook.

If you also use spreadsheets, do you drop the paper logbook?

[ILUVCHUTERS 1]

If your profile is correct, don't stop paper logging yet. You'll need signatures if you want to get your licences and / or ratings (which ones depend on which country)

also - paper logbooks are cool. It's nice looking back at the fun jumps I did

[Flavius 0]

Thanks. I was trying to reduce the work of logging but seems I've increased it, doh :)

[ILUVCHUTERS 1]

Logging doesn't have to be "work"
I know an awesome, bright shiny newbie who has one of those two jumps per page logbooks and fills it to the brim each and every jump - we call them his "stories".

I know others who just put what kind of jump it was, and what number. And still others who put anything and everything in between.

You may find that as you get more experienced you'll write less and less, but at the stage you are now (if your profile reads true) you should be writing stuff down. It will help your coaches and instructors to know what to work on and how to work on it if they can go back on that kind of stuff, and it will help you too.

[dthames 0]

A friend of mine is a tandem instructor and knocks out 20 or more jumps per weekend. But when he went with me to visit a larger DZ, they wanted to see his last logged jump, on paper.

You still need paper in some cases.

Instructor quote, “What's weird is that you're older than my dad!”