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I took flying lessons in the 1980’s and logged about 50 hours including solos but never got a ppl. I want to start flying again but after several moves can’t find my pilot logbook. Do I have any options other than starting over from scratch?

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A student pilot who hasn't flown in 40 years is starting over from scratch.

Think about what's in that logbook. Close to zero PIC time. A handful of expired endorsements. No current experience. It has trivial value if you can find it.

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  • $\begingroup$ Voting down because the pithy "trivial value" claim is simply not true. If the (student) pilot in question already satisfied cross country, certain ground maneuvers, etc... then the logbook could be worth literally thousands of dollars in savings. It depends completely on what was in it and where this pilot is. $\endgroup$
    – Kenn Sebesta
    Commented Jul 21 at 18:09
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    $\begingroup$ @KennSebesta It's okay to disagree. As an instructor, I would not credit any of it. It's the student pilot who brings the experience, not the 40-year-old maneuver logs. $\endgroup$
    – Robert Chapin
    Commented Jul 21 at 21:06
  • $\begingroup$ Agreed to disagree. I would be open to crediting all of it on my CFI ticket, pursuant to seeing the pilot's actual (retained) skillset. If this pilot is a flying spouse, and has thousands of hours in the right seat navigating IFR, then I don't need to sit through another cross-country just to satisfy a missing signature. That's very different from someone who had only just barely soloed and hasn't been in the front seat of a car/plane/boat in 40 years. IMO, declaring it has "trivial value" is a decision to be left to Publicola's CFI, and not our random voices on the internet. $\endgroup$
    – Kenn Sebesta
    Commented Jul 21 at 22:09

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