Who logged their Sim time during inital?

[Lear-fan]

SIM time in type?

What if you need 100 hours in type (lr35/55 or LR-60)for insurance or training requirements to be A Captain in a 135 environment. Would sim time count towards time in type?

Thanks

DES

 

[LJDRVR]

No.

SIM time is SIM time is SIM time. Re-read MetroSherrif's post on page one. Read it again. If you ever take your logbooks into an interview with simulator time logged as TT or ME, you'll be shown the door. If you have a mishap and try explaining to the insurance company that you really did have 100 hours in type because some nerd at FSI said you should log it, you'll be in a world of hurt.

Nobody will care that your logbook contains 15 less hours than it would have if you logged the time, but just about everyone will care if they see the simulator entries in the total time column. Don't want to believe me? Ask FLX757 how many line checks, PC's and type rides he's administered in his career.

Your logbook dude.

 

[fokkers&beer]

Log what you need and fly what you can.
I never have logged any of my sim time its just a drop in the bucket in the end. If I did log any sim time it would be in the SIM collumn only. Some sims I have flown actually are advanced enough to have their own N number and all the check rides can be given in them. The sim operator also said it could be logged as aircraft time because it was advanced enough to be issued an actual N number but I dont know about that.

 

[j41driver]

However, it if were me, I would log it as simulator time ONLY

That's what I do too. It doesn't get counted toward anything really. I just keep log it as "sim" for my own record.

 

[j41driver]

Would sim time count towards time in type?

Can you get your driver's license on your X-Box or PS2? If you aren't physically "in type" then it doesn't count as time in type. Where do people see this "grey" area?