And there was a little rectangular book of pristine green pages that sported a sturdy black cover and bright gold lettering proclaiming itself to be a Pilot Logbook. There was an odd and, at the time, utterly inscrutable circular slide rule that was pretentiously and improbably known as the “E6B Flight Computer.” There were crisp new copies of the sectional and terminal area charts for my home airspace. There wasĪ clear plastic plotter that looked like a souped-up version of my high school geometry class protractor. There was a thick and heavy textbook, albeit one with glossy pages and full-color photos to illustrate things like piston engine parts. When I enrolled as a flight student in the summer of 1991, my newly-assigned flight instructor handed me a small, gray-zippered bag filled with items that now seem like archeological artifacts. ELogbook Logistics: Considerations for Moving from Paper Log to Digital Login
