Originally Posted by
Adlerdriver
I can see a big problem right off the bat. You're treating some of the labels you're giving your times as mutually exclusive (i.e. PIC is separate from IP). This was not the case in my person situation. Every IP hour I logged was also part of my PIC total.
In your example from your previous post, you had 1.3 hours of PIC and of course all that goes into total time as well. But, you also had .7 of IP time on the same sortie. Your IP time is part of your PIC time for that flight. You can't add up PIC and IP time to get total time for that sortie because if you did, you'd end up with 2.0. So, if you're determining your total time by adding up the various categories of times you listed, it seems inevitable that you would induce errors just looking at the one 1.3 hour sortie you gave as an example.
Looking at the times you posted above, I'm confused. Have you only flown the T-38 for the USAF (i.e. are you a FAIP?). Are you saying that your managed to log 799 hours as an IP and NONE of those IP hours are considered PIC? I'm not sure how that could be possible.
As an instructor, aren't you usually with a student?
Not a faip, my other flying is self explanatory, all single seat, all PIC. The above example is just a breakout from airline apps. They want IP removed from PIC (I don't know why) So I just took my PIC time, minus my IP time and placed that in the column, in reality I've logged 865 PIC with 799 of that being IP (in the -38).
With 2 IPs in a jet vs/ a student in another jet, whomever was in the front was the PIC, but both dudes would split IP time. Hence it was common to log something like this: Total 1.0, PIC 1.0, IP .5. or if in the rear-cockpit and not PIC, Total 1.0, IP .5, other .5 (with no PIC). I think these two areas are the places where something is wrong, but I'm on my third look now and still can't find a problem.