Originally Posted by rickair7777
Mesa doesn't care. I vaguely remember that airline apps does ask for that breakdown, but no airline has published PIC mins that exclude dual-received PIC
Bottom Line: The FAA specifically allows you to use dual-received PIC towards the ATP experience requirements, so why the h*ll not??? Haven't you paid enough for your flight training already???
BTW I'm the LAST person who would ever advocate a shortcut of any kind, but this is just plain silliness.
As far as I can recall,there are few airlines that have specific PIC requirements to get an interview. Yes, they want a break down of PIC time when you fill out the paperwork, but at that point is doesn't matter anyway. Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against someone who logs their dual-recieved as PIC. Its just that all of my dual-recieved is seperate from PIC (except a few places where an instructor filled it out as both when I went to an FBO for a checkout) and I don't feel like I was cheated out of anything. Most of the instructors I know keep it seperate. If a student asked me to log it as both I would have no problem doing it.
I guess the way I see it, just because the FAA says I can, doesn't mean I should. The FAA also specifically says I can not have flown in the clouds for 5 months and 29 days and then go up in hard IFR with an airplane full of my friends and family. Doesn't make it a good idea.