Make it easy on yourself! If you don't need the time to make the mins, then don't count time you were not at the flight controls. If you signed for the plane, that is PIC, period. We saw a guy come apart at the interview because he was trying to explain his hours to the panel and they didn't agree, guess who won? The sortie conversion is another animal that if you don't need it for the mins, don't use it. Once you have the mins, a guy with 8,000 hours or 1,500 hours is the same, especially when coming from the military. The airlines understand, they don't understand guys coming up with all sorts of crazy logic to give themselves 100-200 more flight hours. Keep it simple.