EvilGN

I recently updated my airapps acct and when I looked at the company specific final products I noticed Delta and Continental applied a .2 per sortie correction to the times I entered into the site. My homemade excell log book includes a .2, .3, 1.2 and 1.3xflight time conversions, so I can whip out the number that applies at a moments notice.

Hacker15e

In the USAF, sorties are logged starting at brake release for takeoff, and end when you stop taxiing after landing, or 5 minutes after landing (whichever is shorter).

Thus, virtually none of the ground time that gets logged according to the FAA rules (the ol' "moves under it's own power for the purposes of flight" part) ends up in a military flyer's logbook.

Hacker15e

Guys, realize that different airlines have different methodologies for converting that flight time.

Some have an additive per sortie, some have an addition per hour, and others have a modifier for your total flight time.

So, my advice is to just keep your basic hours in a digital logbook, read the applications carefully, and apply whatever modifier that specific airline is looking for.

Circa 2007 during the last hiring boom, these were the modifiers used by some of the majors:

Southwest: .3 hours per sortie (Source: The employment page from the SWA website)
FedEx: .2 hours per sortie. (Source: "Questions" section of the pilot employment area of website)
UPS: .3 per sortie
Continental: Approx .3 per sortie (apparently automatically performed -- do not change logbook times) Only applies it to your PIC, turbine and total time
Alaska: .3 per sortie
JetBlue: "multiply flight time by 1.3..." (Source: Listed on the minimums section and also on the application.)
NetJets: .2 per hour