Originally Posted by
LowSlowT2
Unless someone on the plane has a J-code...
Apparently, that isn't used in all communities the way it's supposed to be.
I didn't keep a personal log book and wish I had. During the great swap from bubble sheets to Oracle in '97-98 or so for ARMS, I'm certain I lost a bunch of time. I have no way to prove it. I have huge gaps in my time that ARMS could not account for. I've got no one to blame but myself.
There is a lot of standardization problems when it comes to calculating flying times across the USAF communities. AFI11-401 isn't a hard read, but some communities really screw it up.
I kept a separate personal log and I can't tell you how many times the HARMs office screwed up my flying time. Not joking, almost every other flight had issues. Sometimes they failed to log an entire trip worth of flying time. Sometimes they entered the same mission two or three times on the same day.