How correct log simulator hours?

[EngineOut]

The landings should not be logged, nor should the operation be shown as total time (total flight time).

If it is a level D sim, it's FAA Certified for landings, therefore, landings can be logged in the "Landings" column

Furthermore, Flight Safety is a 14 CFR Part 142 school, and the rules governing those are different. I don't know if the logging of time is affected relative to those rules, but I know the FAA Certification Level of the sim makes a difference for purposes of logging time.

 

[avbug]

You can log it but it's not pilot time. It's not flight time. Log anything you wish, including ultralight time. Logging sim time for anything but time smacks of padding a logbook.

Logging the landings in an approved simulator under Part 142, or an approved simulator in general, may be used to meet the recency of experience requirements of 61.57. However, that's it.

Unless one is trying to pad one's hours, there is no reason to calculate simulator, FTD, or even PCATD time in any other total except simulator time. Further, under 61.51, it has no applicability outside that classification.

 

[AV1ATRX]

Thanks to all who answered. I was quite satisfied by AC 61-126, but some others participating in the discussion refused to take that as the gospel and demanded a regulation that explicitly defined the difference between a FTD, simulator, and PCATD.

As usual I got more than I needed from you all. Thanks again.

 

[slickmagneto]

LOG EVERY MINUTE

I say Log it All and let the hiring Gods or the FAA decide if it is appropriate.