Hi guys, I was recently told I had more hours than I do whilst looking through my log book. I've always expressed my hours from the Total Aeronautical Experience column. I was told by a senior person in the industry that I should use the Grand Total as my 'total time'.
So for example, if I had;
500 PIC and
500 Co Pilot I would have;
750 Total Aeronautical Experience and
1000 Grand Total Flying Experience.
What one would you guys/girls put down on your resume, brag about loudly at the pub when chicks walk up to the bar etc... I'd call myself a 750 hour pilot.
How do you count your hours?
- Jabberwocky
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Re: How do you count your hours?
Jabberwocky wrote:Hi guys, I was recently told I had more hours than I do whilst looking through my log book. I've always expressed my hours from the Total Aeronautical Experience column. I was told by a senior person in the industry that I should use the Grand Total as my 'total time'.
So for example, if I had;
500 PIC and
500 Co Pilot I would have;
750 Total Aeronautical Experience and
1000 Grand Total Flying Experience.
What one would you guys/girls put down on your resume, brag about loudly at the pub when chicks walk up to the bar etc... I'd call myself a 750 hour pilot.
If it was me.....
I would tell the chicks I flew top gun jets..........they don't care about the hours
Seriously you have a 1000 experience, however some contracts requirement pic time only and some count multi crew
- bangequalsbad
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Re: How do you count your hours?
This goes back to the Hrs V Exp thread that was up, and the guts of the discussion being...
1) Log ALL hours based on the law of the land you are operating in.
2) If it is not stated what specific TYPE of hours they are after...go with the biggest number.
3) You will always be 50hrs short of what is required.
If you are talking to chicks at the bar and are relying on being a pilot to pick up...a 250hr difference won't matter.
1) Log ALL hours based on the law of the land you are operating in.
2) If it is not stated what specific TYPE of hours they are after...go with the biggest number.
3) You will always be 50hrs short of what is required.
If you are talking to chicks at the bar and are relying on being a pilot to pick up...a 250hr difference won't matter.
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Re: How do you count your hours?
In my limited reading of Part 61, I believe co-pilot hours will no longer be officially reduced by 50%. Rightly so, as the machine usually requires two pilots and without you sitting in it, it would be illegally flying. Australia is one of the few countries that deduct half the time of co-pilots, it's not done elsewhere. For this reason I've always counted Grand Total as total.
- Jabberwocky
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Re: How do you count your hours?
To be honest, I've never had any success or interest with the pilot thing at the bar. Well I did once, but she was married, and her husband was standing next to me at the time so it never eventuated into anything.
Thanks guys.
Thanks guys.
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Re: How do you count your hours?
Tell girls that you perform life saving surgery on puppies free of charge and then you don't have to worry about hours!
- AgRattler
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Re: How do you count your hours?
I log all flying time.
I recently logged 24 hrs twin flying abroad.
I recently logged 24 hrs twin flying abroad.
Redlining in neutral
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Re: How do you count your hours?
AgRattler wrote:I log all flying time.
I recently logged 24 hrs twin flying abroad.
Was it an A380 or B777
- Eric Hunt
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Re: How do you count your hours?
Come on, OEI, an A380 has 4 engines, so he could log twice the twin time!
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Re: How do you count your hours?
61.075 Definition of aeronautical experience for Part 61
A person’s aeronautical experience is as follows:
(a) for a pilot—the total of:
(i) the person’s flight time as a pilot; and
(ii) the person’s simulated flight time; and
(iii) the person’s tethered flight time;
(b) for a flight engineer—the total of:
(i) the person’s flight time as a flight engineer; and
(ii) the person’s simulated flight engineer time.
A person’s aeronautical experience is as follows:
(a) for a pilot—the total of:
(i) the person’s flight time as a pilot; and
(ii) the person’s simulated flight time; and
(iii) the person’s tethered flight time;
(b) for a flight engineer—the total of:
(i) the person’s flight time as a flight engineer; and
(ii) the person’s simulated flight engineer time.
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Re: How do you count your hours?
Skeeter wrote:61.075 Definition of aeronautical experience for Part 61
A person’s aeronautical experience is as follows:
(a) for a pilot—the total of:
(i) the person’s flight time as a pilot; and
(ii) the person’s simulated flight time and
(iii) the person’s tethered flight time;
(b) for a flight engineer—the total of:
(i) the person’s flight time as a flight engineer; and
(ii) the person’s simulated flight engineer time.
I've just gained 5000 hours in my logbook - Microsoft flight sim x gold
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Re: How do you count your hours?
oei wrote:I would tell the chicks I flew top gun jets..........they don't care about the hours
As we told the aluminium death tube drivers in the bar: they all look the same on the end of the rescue hoist.
Tell them you're a helicopter pilot and Harry was your co-pilot
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