JW pilot flightbook

[Nikita Egorov]

Gentlemen,

Several questions on the status of Jagdflieger flightbooks:

1. Was it usually filled in by pilot itself or by personel of group stab? Was it usually filled just after the sortie or it was secondary source based on operational documents of the unit?
2. Where did they stored during the hostilites and what was their fate in case pilot was killed or transffered to another detachment? After being closed were they transfered to RLM or another institute or became personal belonging of pilot?
3. Was it a common practise to bring flightbook to combat sortie? I have examples when German pilots were captured together with their documents including flightbooks (e.g. Uffz. Rolf-Dieter Schafer of 1/JG52)

TIA