Originally Posted by
Ottopilot
Using sim time towards a rating is fine.
Using sim time towards total time is not allowed. The simulator never left the ground so how can it be flight time? Total time does not include sim time.
For the commercial, you can get it with 200 instead of 250 if you use your 50 hours of sim time... So for some ratings at least, it's acceptable, not sure if that applies to an ATP, though.