Originally Posted by rickair7777:1345707
You can log sim time as IMC, ME, night, complex, etc but I would recommend not mixing those times up with your flight time since they do not apply towards aeronautical experience in all cases, and most employers want to see sim time separate from flight time. Employers don't usually care if sim time was ME, etc. IMC sim time can be useful for meeting entry-level hiring mins.
Likewise for ME sim time, I'd think, particularly when spent doing V1 cuts, etc, in a sim for a transport category aircraft, in a Part 121 training program? Wishful thinking, perhaps?
Originally Posted by rickair7777:1345707
Bottom line, with a few exceptions you can log it any way you want but if you mix things up it will make your life harder down the road, and may create confusion when an employer is reviewing your logbook. Worst case, you could get kicked out of an interview if they think you're trying to fudge to meet hiring mins (especially turbine time).
Of course I don’t want to do anything that could jeopardize an interview, but as I've posted previously, I'm somewhat short on ME time so if it is an accepted practice, being able to include an additional 33 hrs of Level C sim time in my ME totals--as it already is for my instrument time totals--would put me over the ME hurdle for a handful of carriers.