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At most any airport that has flight training, and any Pilot supply shop. Google "pilot supplies" and you'll find hundreds of sources.

I picked up one from the local airport for $10. Got tired of the FS log book. What good is a log book that you can't view?

As for the questions.

1. I've always counted time from when I start the airplane to when I shut it down. There isn't much difference anyway and your log book is for recording time operating the aircraft. My instructor never said anything about doing it this way so I assume it's OK.

2. The Standard Log Book has a section for recording aircraft category such as Single Engine Land, Multi Engine Land etc. There are colums that allow you to carry the total over or just count up the time per type.

3. The first page or so has places to record your name (yep youre right), address, certificates and ratings.

The log pages include lines for date, aircraft make and model, tail number, origination, destination, remarks or maneuvers, aircraft category, conditions of flight and type of piloting time (Dual instruction or PIC).

7quicksilver ~ The "Pilots Log Book" is for keeping your flying records as MattNW did a great job of explaining.  The reason I started my own is that many times FS9 screws up the log or I do because of "opperator error" therefore it is a good idea to keep your own hard copy.   

MattNW ~ Thanks for the detailed information on the log book....very helpful.  I have everything you stated above included in my log book except for:  Single Engine Land and Multi Engine Land etc.  I will include these and also a section for remarks.  I also have not been counting my startup, taxi and shutdown times.   

flaminghotsauce ~ Is the Hobbs Meter that you mentioned used to log engine time on aircraft?  Boy! your right.....a pilot could log a bunch of ground hours and never leave the runway!  Some of the taxi ways in FS9 are looooooong!!  I wonder where the longest taxi way is and just how long it is, I think some of them must be a mile or two.  I know some of the waiting times for takeoff clearance are very lengthly!   8)

Pilots Log Book is for recording time in the Air. When you take off from any controlled Airport, your airborne time is recorded and can be retrieved upon request by the pilot. Now then, this raises a qusetion, as IRL, Simulator time is recorded from the time the Simulator is started to shut down. Therefore, if you are using a hard copy log book, you should record your simulator experience as "Sim" and from the time you start your FS at "Fly now." If you are using a software generated log book for FS 9, then you should use the airborne times only. However, this is where MS falls short. In all previous versions, the logbook was recorded automatically and could then be edited, however, I don't see how you can do this in FS 9. I have put my sim flight on "pause" for 8 hours at a time and that's the time FS 9 has recorded for me.  ???

Here, maybe this will help. As long as you don't use the image to make copies off of (just reproduce the text and lines using a paint program) it should be fair use.

You know that there are a couple of flight plan and logging excel spreedsheets for download?
I think they are here under "MISC" or "UTILITIES"

Kneeboard.....great idea JBaymore.  I guess you know what kind of monitor I have....."the old type"....cause a greese pencil would really mess up an lcd screen! Especially the orange greese pencil  that I use!  Would love to have about a 21" lcd screen....would be sweet.  Oh, well...someday.  Spending money on a new graphics card and expanding the memory on my PC...so FS9 will be even better for me.  You know I just had a thought....wouldn't it be great if someone came up with a Sim Shop....where you could purchase items just like the kneeboard you mentioned, maps, plotters, a simulator log book designed just for sim pilots?  You know there are enough great ideas in this forum to fill a dozen books about "microsoft flight simulator" and a book like that would sell a few copys.  It would give more help then microsoft ever thought of!  Just dreaming...... 

Thanks for the tip fretnstuff...I will check out the "MISC" and "UTILITIES".