logging sim time

[munson]

alright this is getting a little confusing now. Let me ask it like this...If you were going to aply for a job at a major airline and you had sim time, how would you log it. Does it count for Total Time, what about full motion simulators with visuals (i have alot of time in these from the military)? Also, would you divide it up between day and night?

 

[vclean]

You need to use the search function as this subject comes up every month or so.
Sim is sim, nothing else. It is not: total, multiengine, instrument (actual or hood) , cross country, flight time or night. With an authorized instructor log FTD (flight training device) or simulator if the sim is FAA approved level C or D.

Log what you like or desire. Airlines discount sim or FTD time. I and many others do not log sim time. Company training records maintain this. If you are thinking of interviewing with an airline, I would not corrupt my logbook with useless sim time, especially if it is logged incorrectly.

 

[johnpeace]

I just log it as sim time (not PIC, not XC, not 'flight time')...just sim, dual received and simulated instrument.

I have done so for the purposes of satisfying experience/training requirements of my instrument and now commercial ratings.

I don't imagine I'll ever have an interview anywhere where it matters whether or not 50-100 hours of my total experience were logged in a sim. Not that I would present them in an interview as anything other than sim hours.

Anyway, my point was just that for some purposes, sim time is applicable toward experience requirements.