Level D sim time

[flx757]

DoinTime,

Since you quoted a portion of Part 61 that I mentioned with regard to using that experience to be used toward a certificate or rating, read it a bit more closely. It says pilot time. Now go to Part 1 and read the definitions of pilot time and flight time.

Personally, I use flight time as the basis for what I consider total time. Total flight time.

Of course, you can log whatever you see fit. As someone else mentioned, if you feel like logging C-152 time as jet time, have at it. It's your logbook. Just be prepared to justify it, should anyone ask. And I will say for the umpteenth time on this board (and final one, I might add...I grow tired of answering and reanswering this same question. I'll let my previous answers stand if anyone cares about my opinion...) that simulator time is not flight time, therefore should not be counted as any flight time...not total time, not MEL, not PIC, etc. It is sim time. Period. And no one will EVER question my logbook with regards to this time. But if anyone feels they need the few hours that this sim time is going to give you, if you feel it is going to make all the difference in the world, then by all means...log it. After all...it's your logbook.

 

[philo beddoe]

If I am interviewing against any of these guys, I would like to encourage them to log all hours sitting on the FBO sofa coaching students as 'dual given' - you'll weed yourselves out and I'll get a better shot at the job.

You're insane to log it as FLIGHT TIME.

 

[ASH]

Were not logging it under a flight column, were putting it under a Total column.


You say Tomato, I say Tomoto....You'd figure after being at my third Airline, I would have heard about it being a problem by now....

 

[Mel Sharples]

Were not logging it under a flight column, were putting it under a Total column.

You say Tomato, I say Tomoto....You'd figure after being at my third Airline, I would have heard about it being a problem by now....

You're right. I feel the same way. I've been at four airlines now and nobody has figured out that 850 hours in my logbook are fake. I also have 275 as PIC in a King Air. I wasn't flying, but I did run the radios.

Airlines are so dumb. I just log what I want.

Alright... sorry for the sarcasm, but this is nuts. If it's not a plane, it is not total flight time. Period. Pilot time? Yes. Flight time? No.

Airlines want flight time, not pilot time. Otherwise you could find a buddy that works at a sim place and log 10,000 of B-747 time. According to your definition, that would be just fine to log in the TOTAL column.

Nothing personal, but logging sim as total is crazy. Our local Fed said, "You can log whatever you want in your logbook. You just can't use that time for a certificate or rating."

The feds don't care what is in your logbook, but I don't think there is an airline in the U.S. that would think SIM as TOTAL is okay.

Fly safe...

 

[ASH]

Crazy or not...airlines no care...me no care

 

[Tooslow]

its up to you!

Got hired by the king of questionable flight time regionals, expressjet in March. I logged my d-328-300 jet sim time in my logs as total and level d sim. No questions asked. If fact if they had not seen it would have raised questions of being trained and qualified in the airplane.........................You need to log it per the FAA training requirements................