A couple notes:
I agree with tarp that tuning radios and playing FO is not flying per se. I much preferred the flying portion of my 100 hours, of course. Three of the people that I was in the program with were MEIs at the time, and when I could get paired with them, we'd go up for about 3 hours straight of approaches, done single-engine to the missed with an intersection hold.
I at least insisted that my partner watch me do approaches all day and night. Better training.
Some of the people there would just want to go fly to somewhere, like Mobile, or Savannah. I did a few of these, but coming back was requesting approaches all the way back down the coast.
A few of the people there wouldn't want to wear the hood, and I just wouldn't fly with them. I'm not trying to prove that I'm on higher moral ground or anything, but this was my money and time they were wasting, and I wasn't about to let it happen. Right next to me, no less.
Out of the aforementioned Walkwitz Aviation, I once landed at Spruce Creek and taxied up to one of the company Apaches with its beacon on. I told them so, and they just nodded and smiled. It was after I had left that day that I learned from my partner that that particular airplane had the Hobbs hooked to the master. Can you believe, paying however much an hour to not even fly? I mean why bother paying all that money when a Parker pen still costs only about 3 bucks? I shudder to think that either of those guys is employed somewhere. That incident and the numerous mechanical problems their airplanes had made me get my money back from them and spend it in Ft. Pierce instead.
Is it 100 hours in the logbook according to 14 CFR 61? Unquestionably yes. Is it worth that much in experience? I think it all depends on what you make of it. Once I had passed 2500 hours, I began to
really understand what people here talk about when they say hours don't mean Jack. Experience is key. The day a pilot stops learning is the day he or she begins their final descent. I agree with a-v-8er that we must lead by example, taking action to make our chosen profession a noble one, instead of accepting mediocrity, or worse yet, outright lying about the flying you're doing.
*steps up on soapbox*
On that note (mediocrity), I've flown with guys who'll chase needles (!) down an ILS in a jet, then by some miracle of nature wrestle the airplane on the ground half a wingspan left of centerline and way over Vref, and then they continue to accept that from themselves over and over? I mean I have bad days too, but come
on. We owe it to our customers to strive for perfection, even if it is unattainable, and even if it is only freight

. Pride in doing a good job is part of the stuff our parents should have taught us.
*steps down*
Flymach2 says it very well:
As professional pilots, we are held to a high standard. We are on our honor when documenting our flight time. I think it is a sad day when we have to question whether or not someone's logbook is factual.
Amen, brother. It's time I go to bed. The pager is a ruthless mistress.
Regards,
Starsailor