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How to Deal with a Dusty Logbook?

Kreisha Ballantyne is one of the most recognisable aviation writers in Australia. With experience writing for several aviation titles, Kreisha has a broad base of experience, an ability to tap into important general aviation issues and a talent for expressing in simple terms what everyone is thinking. An active pilot, she lives and loves aviation.

Forgive me, reader, for I have sinned. It had been two years since my last flight. June 2020 marked two whole years since I have flown as PIC.

Two years–the longest consecutive time I have been without piloting an aircraft in my 12 years of flying. Two years–which means I hadn’t flown PIC once since my last flight review. I’m not going to lie to you, reader; I felt shame, disappointment and a little fear.

I wrote in my last column The 300 days of April that I’d had a doozy of

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