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Brainteasers Interactive Quiz #4:
Logging Flight Time

Whether you're a neophyte student or grizzled old IFR pro, you need to know how to answer questions concerning logging of flight time. In this quiz, IFR magazine editor Paul Bertorelli tests your understanding of some of the basic concepts and legalities of logging.

by Paul Bertorelli

The questions in this Brainteaser quiz are based on FAR Part 61, particularly FAR 61.57.

Answer the questions as best you can, then click on the "score" button to see your score and read the explanations. If you don't like your score the first time around, you can change some of your answers and resubmit. To get the most out of this quiz, we suggest you keep trying until you get a perfect score.

1. Legally, what you put in your logbook is between you and your logbook. As far as the FARs are concerned, you don't have to log anything.
a. True
b. False
2. Let's say you haven't flown for five months and you want to take passengers on a VFR trip in daylight. Before departing, you must log how many landings?
a. Three
b. Three to a full-stop
c. None are required in this instance
3. Pick the best answer below. Same situation as #3 above, but the trip will be flown in VMC at night and on an IFR flight plan in a Piper Arrow. If you taxi up to the FSDO after dark and get ramp checked, the inspector would want to see evidence of:
a. Six approaches during the last six months, holding and tracking, three landings to a full-stop, current instrument proficiency check.
b. Current instrument proficiency check, logged flight review.
c. Current instrument proficiency check, logged flight review, three landings to a full-stop, necessary endorsements.
4. If you get ramp checked, you're expected to have your logbook with you and to produce it to prove that you've logged what's necessary to be current.
a. True
b. False
5. The minimum amount of time you can legally log is:
a. .1 hour
b. .2 hour
c. .5 hour
d. No minimum
6. Which of these cannot legally be logged as instrument time?
a. Flying in daylight VMC on an IFR flight plan.
b. Flying in daylight VMC 200 feet above a cloud deck.
c. Flying over the Gulf of Mexico, at night, with no horizon.
d. Flying in haze, with no horizon but with the ground visible, while on a VFR flight plan.
7. In order to be legally loggable, an instrument approach must...
a. be flown all the way to DH or MDA, under the hood or in cloud.
b. flown so that any portion or segment is in cloud or under the hood.
c. flown to at least 500 feet above DH or MDA.
8. A private pilot is working on her instrument rating and is flying from the right seat, with the instructor in the left seat. The aircraft is on an IFR flight plan and in IMC. The private pilot...
a. can log the time as PIC, actual IMC.
b. could log the time if she were sitting in a control seat.
c. can't log the time because she doesn't have and instrument rating.