About my answer to Keydets Comment on Majors Board

[thebluto]

Keydet: Yes, that was a lame answer. How about this thought though? With the fact that more of the Dedicated Field Work and pilot trainers are going to be in the simulator; and, that there are going to be a lot less airplanes to fly in P-3 world, I don't think there's going to be an issue with PIC time getting bigger than total time.

Besides, P-3 Department Heads and CO/XOs have so much other paperwork and other staff work that they make for themselves. That gives them a lot more time behind a desk wearing khakis than they'd ever get in an airplane.

Maybe some O-4s/O-5s care to flame away on that issue, but it's truth that hurts. If it wasn't true, then more people would stay in.

 

[Keydet]

HEEEEY EVERYBODY (in Harry Caray tone),

Bluto--I agree. Hours reductions in the P-3 will make it improbable. The arbitrary method of defining SIC by simply subtracting PIC (A time) from total time is conservative, but if even you break it down over 4 flights (each 9 hrs, three in which you were aircraft commander, one you were not) it doesn't make sense. Your logbook is going to show 24 hours of total pilot time(assuming 6 hrs in seat for each pilot), while the sum of your A time is going to be 27. Obviously we all want to get to the answer that will provide for the least amount of tap dancing in front of an interviewer, but at the same time, not unnecessarily shortchange ourselves. BTW, Merry Christmas and all that...

 

[thebluto]

I hear ya'. Luckily, my IP time in current aircraft is pretty close to twice the amount of time I had in the 'ole Echo Peck 'er and the Papa 3. So, that time is becoming less significant.

(By the way, you seem much more pi$$ed off on this web-site than you do in "real life".)

 

[Keydet]

I wished you a Merry Christmas, didn't I?

 

[thebluto]

I was speaking in general terms. You seem much more happy-go-lucky in real life.


Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Hannukah and Happy Festivus to you.