Seat filler, P-F-T etc. in 135 Cargo

[stingray]

If your a required crewmember by FAR's LOG IT
If you are a required crew member by OP Specs, which if it is in your ops specs makes it an FAR. LOG IT
If you are a required crew member LOG IT.

When applying for a flying job 135 or 121, you fill out an application with all the pilot jobs you have had, which is also the law. It should also be reflected in your logs

 

[FMR_RGNL_PLT]

As long as its legal, log it! The idea that a guy with "4000hrs is so much better than a guy with 3000hrs" is not always the case, it depends on the kind of flying the guy has been doing.

IMO 3000hrs spent flying short hops where you are spending a larger portion of your time in the t/o or landing modes is more valuable than 4000 hrs where most of it is spent tracking a VOR radial and maintaining altitude!

 

[ArcherB]

This may have been said already but if you have taken a checkride with the FAA or check airman to be a SIC you are probably required. If you have not taken that checkride and are sitting right seat then you probably should not log it.

 

[mike1mc]

If you have not taken that checkride and are sitting right seat then you probably should not log it.

Exactly, If you haven't taken the checkride, you can't log it legally.

 

[uscpilot]

Look it has been established that it is legal to log time as an SIC in a SP aircraft if your companies ops specs allow it. The problem happens when you go to an interview and the guy on the other side is asking you why you have 300 hours of SIC in a baron. The last thing you want to do is get into argument with him like I did with cdog. No matter how right you are the argument is lost. If he thinks that SIC in a light twin is junk then it is and the interview is over.
It is perfictly legal to log however. If we have a two man crew in a light twin they are allowed to log over 8 and up to 10 hours flight in a 24 hour period.
With all this said I am not saying not to log it. By all means do it, I did. Just log it towards your total time but forget the SIC column.
This whole discussion about legality in the eyes of the FAA is absurd. If ops specs (approved by the FAA) say it is legal then it is. I have to carry my ops specs with me with my FAR's. If I am asked by the FAA why I filed an alternate that only has a 400' ceiling and 1 mile forcast, or if I log flight time while as an SIC I will show the FAA inspector my ops specs.
Summarize: SIC in a light twin, log it only as total not SIC.
usc

 

[uscpilot]

Jerry left a couple years ago.
usc