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Old 01-14-2014 | 10:28 AM
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Rusty17
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As a C-17 guy this whole "other time" thing is killing me. Since my AC cert I'll say I probably flew a half dozen times where I was not the A Code which even being on the very conservative side would add up to about 75 total hrs... and about 30 of those hrs was when we had a brand new AC that the Commander wanted an IP with on his first A code mission down range. The rest were locals with more than one IP getting currency so they just picked one for the A Code. At my last Squadron my DO (who flew up to Commander) was very big on dividing up hours equally on our flights... as stated earlier that is pretty standard in the C-17. What's killing me is that for 4 years at that Squadron I'd typically go out with 2 new co-pilots flying 60 hrs and end up logging 20 hrs of "other time"!!! That gave me about 400 hrs of other time! I was late rated to pilot (prior Nav) so I'm not a 4000-5000 hr guy like a lot of C-17/C-5 guys so just throwing 400 hrs of other time since AC in the trash hurts! I certainly don't want to look like I'm speeding and am fine using a 90/10% method on my total time since AC... just worried that someone in an interview my think I'm trying to cook the books. I wasn't planning on SWA and would rather fly passengers than cargo (no offense to our FedEx/UPS, etc brothers out there) who seem to have the strict "no other time" policy. Any suggestions?
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