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!
Is it hypothetically possible? I would answer yes, since darn near anything these days is possible, however, you cannot "fly" your airplane on the ramp.
How would you annotate this in a log book? Same departure and arrival airport for "X" number of hours with ZERO LANDINGS?....
Anyone silly enough to present a logbook with those kind of multiple entries for a ANY job will probably get quietly declined during an interview while the xerox copies of your logbook along with all your personal info and pilot cert # are turned into the local FSDO for investigation.
On a side note, think back to some of the most recent high profile aircraft accidents, 'child left in a car' stories, the news and investigations of both pilots of Malaysia airlines flight 370, Colgan 3407 ....YOUR HISTORY, YOUR LOGBOOK WILL FOLLOW YOU AFTER THE ACCIDENT....