Originally Posted by
rswitz
In regards to building flight time to meet the ATP mins, I had this weird idea that I wanted to validate here on the forums.
Here it is. You buy some old c150 and simply run the engine on the ramp for hours on end. Obviously the fuel burn would be significantly less than actually flying it and the Hobbs meter is still running.
I realize this is stupid and I'm not going to do this, I just wanted to know if this would hypothetically be possible, and if the airlines would ever find out I "flew" my airplane on the ramp for 800 hours.
Thanks!
If you were gonna do this you might as well pencil whip your logbook and save yourself the gas money.
Good luck when you get to your first commercial gig though when you only have a few hundred "real" hours though. I get the feeling the will spot you on your first day of training.