Flight Hours and FAA/Airlines

[labbats]

The FAA states that for an ATP the applicant must be "of good moral character". Thus their loophole to drop you for lying.

 

[naviator]

Slightly off the topic;

135 regs: there's a rumour (reg?) out there that if there is two ATP type-rated pilots onboard (say in a Learjet) that both can legally log PIC.

Any thoughts, comments?

 

[Freight Dog]

Heh... when I went for my upgrade/ATP/type rating checkride in the DHC-8, the FAA inspector who did my oral didn't even look at my logbook...

 

[atpcliff]

Hi!

I have an interesting logbook, and some stories from interviews, etc.

Scubabri:
My logbook says 367.1 hours of Dual Recieved. Interesting...
I also have 1136 hours of airplane, and 1020 of that is MEJet. I have about 8 hours of multi-recip, and 0 of turboprop.

I called the FAA to find out if I was elligible for the ATP written. I was, and I went to the ATL FSDO to get a signature so I could take it. The first FAA guy I met looked at my logbook and said I wasn't elligible for the ATP. He then had a conference with 2 other FAA guys, and after the huddle broke, he said I was elligible-each FAA and FSDO can tell you different things as they interpret the regs differently.

I was in an interview for a small regional, and they looked pretty closely at my logbook. They asked my about my 12 hours of PIC MEJet.

I was in another interview for a large regional (where they looked closely at my logbook), and he asked me a ton of technical questions about the aircraft I flew 10 years before. I had studied that aircraft, and knew some of the answers, but not enough. For an example, I couldn't remember the wingspan of that aircraft.

About a year ago I bought LogBookPro. I really like it a lot. It makes it a lot easier to keep track of my time, and to catch errors in my paper logbook. If you want to go anywhere where they are interested even a little in your logbook, I reccomend it. Also, it makes filling out those complex time grides a breeze. It used to take me HOURS!

Cliff
DTW