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Morning all,

Apologies if this has been asked before - due to the terms involved, I've had a hard time searching for the information.

I'm on my second reading of the Air Pilots Manual books (and a few others,) trying to fill in any gaps in my knowledge before making arrangements with a flight school / booking in for UK PPL(A) theory exams.

I'm pretty comfortable with flight planning. However, the APMs refer to keeping an in-flight log. In the Navigation volume, they show examples which have the same columns as for flight planning (which makes sense) but then later talk about recalculating groundspeed or logging current heading and time (for example: when you're uncertain of your position.)

Where are you "supposed" to do this? Do people have separate logs that they use while in-flight and copy information from the plan as they arrive at each checkpoint (with amendments where things have been different)? Are we just to scribble corrections etc. on a notepad or over the top of the sheet we used for flight planning?

Many thanks.