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title: "What airline interview panels check in your logbook"
description: "A checklist of the logbook problems that come up in airline pilot interviews and background checks, and how to fix each one before you sit down."
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last_updated: "2026-09-04"
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# What airline interview panels check in your logbook

A checklist of the logbook problems that come up in airline pilot interviews and background checks, and how to fix each one before you sit down.

A logbook review is rarely about the hours. It is about whether the record holds together when someone who was not there reads it. Here is what tends to get flagged, roughly in the order panels notice it.

## Totals that do not reconcile

Page totals, year totals and the summary on your application should all agree. If you moved between apps or corrected an old entry, re-run the totals before you print.

## Gaps and overlaps

A month with nothing in it, or two legs that overlap in time, invites a question. Have the answer ready (training, leave, a furlough) and make sure the entries around it are correct.

## Missing aircraft identification

"A320" is a family. Panels want the registration, and increasingly they want it because it can be checked. If your logbook came out of a scheduling system, this column is usually empty. Filling it in from public flight history is the single biggest credibility upgrade you can make. [Logbook Fix](/) does it for a whole logbook in one pass.

## Block times that look invented

Round numbers everywhere, or block times that never vary for the same city pair, read as reconstructed. Actual out and in times from the flight record are specific and defensible.

## Entries you cannot explain

A leg to the wrong airport, a duplicate line, a diversion logged as the planned destination. Each is small; three of them in a row is a pattern. Go through the exceptions before the interview, not during it.

## The one-page answer

Bring a printed record with, for each leg: date, flight number, from, to, tail number, aircraft type, out, in, block. Bring the CSV on a USB drive or in email. Panels do not need it every time, but the pilot who has it is the pilot who did the work.

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