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01-11-2011, 03:48 PM
#32
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I believe that it can and should be logged as total time. I have found another reason to support my opinion and that is 61.57...the fact that you may log landings (night and day) for currency using a sim. If I can log takeoffs, landings and instrument time, then I am logging total as well. Anything that is loggable in the logbook, is loggable as total time. It is all aeronautical experience. Then you break it down into its subcategories; ie sim, pic, night, sic, x-c, etc.
01-11-2011, 05:13 PM
#33
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The question should be, do airlines consider level D simulator time towards their minimum flight time requirement when applying for a job?
I can tell you that at least one particular major airline does not. This one particular airline would even go out of their way to informing their applicants to not only not count their simulator time, but not include their PIC time before they received their private pilot certificate.
Some applicants would still come into the interview including that time in their application and when asked why they included that time, the applicants response would be "well, the FAA says I can include it." The interview would end after the interviewer reminded them they were not interviewing with the FAA that day.
If you want to keep record of your Level D time I would probably go as far as keeping it recorded in a seperate logbook. That way you're not fishing through your logbook for simulator time before applying to an airline.
03-31-2012, 11:22 AM
#35
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I am at a 121 carrier and have been logging each flight on individual lines with aircraft N numbers. The thing I haven't logged however is flight numbers or crew member names. Has anyone ever seen this be a problem? Should I go back and look all of that info up?
03-31-2012, 12:56 PM
#36
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Yeah definitely. Make sure you also log the aircraft serial number and any MEL's it may have had. I also keep a copy of each release but I'm running out of room in my apartment.
03-31-2012, 01:01 PM
#37
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To respond, I believe you're taking me out of context. If a major airline is hiring and requires 1000 hours PIC jet time and you show up with 1000 hours of PIC jet time all from a level D simulator then yes.
03-31-2012, 03:06 PM
#39
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So the company doesn't keep track of your flight time? Wouldn't you have to bring a company printout to any other interview? I would imagine there is a .0001 percent chance the times in your logbook would be the same as your company printout.
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