Ewfflyer

As far as pilots, male or female, I would pander that larger corporations will be more willing to put a female ahead of the male to keep the "status quo." Smaller operations will stick to the "can you hack it or not" way of doing things, which at a small 135 is where I flew with one of the better pilots I've had the opportunity to fly with that was female.

Sperl0863

I would think that Frasca time would have to be logged as dual received. During your instrument and commercial training, a number of hours can be logged towards your rating or license (dont know the number of hours off hand). After your training, the only time you should ever log dual is for a cheap IPC. No need to if you just want to brush up on approaches and BAI.

kittyhawk

Ok.. so.. I've read, re-read, and read again the FAR, including the definitions in 61.1 , viewed multiple forums and I'm still very confused. Please.. someone make sense of the following for me, it's from another forum:

"Something most guys don't know is that your Frasca ground trainer instruction time is loggable under part 61 for 50 hours of the 250 hours total required for the commercial license. So you could do another 30, in addition to the 20 for the IFR, and still have it count towards your commercial. "


FAR 61.65 (d)(2)(i) says
-at least 15 hours of flight training from an authorized instructor in the aircraft category for which the instrument rating is sought

that to me sounds like the training would have to be in a plane which would make Frasca time worthless. Though it doesn't say "must be in an airplane" like some other parts do. But then FAR 61.65 (e) spells out training with a FTD which would count Frasca time towards the 15 training hours for an instrument rating.


then there's more under FAR 61.129 for the commercial

61.129 (a)(2)(i)and(ii) says out of the 250 hours:
100 hours in powered aircraft, of which 50 must be in airplanes.
100 hours of pilot-in-command flight time which includes at least 50 hours in cross country flight time of which at least 10 hours must be in airplanes.


That leaves 50 up for grab.


Also 61.129 (a)(3)(i) says
-10 hours of instrument training of which at least 5 hours must be in a single-engine airplane.


which again to me means ftd time does count.

All of that says to me Frasca time is not worthless because though they cant be included in Total time they can be credited in lieu of the required flight time towards meeting the total aeronautical experience or recency of experience requirements.


I am aware of the fact that there has been other threads about time logging. I've read some of the posts but they are from a while back. Do you guys have a different understanding of this mess?