Originally Posted by
blastboy
Logging landings is just to keep track of currency requirements. Log the landings as a CFI if you want! It's not against FARs.
For my own benefit, why aren't you logging the IFR training as dual given? You're a II aren't you? Why not log it as dual given if you're giving instruction? I would!!
edit: I checked out part 61.51 and there is nothing there that says anything about logging landings. It seems to be more of an individual preference because it's not against FARs to log landings as an instructor from what I see. When you are giving instruction, you are PIC and I would think you can and should log those landings. The FAA isn't 100% clear on what you CAN'T log. If you're A$$ is in a flying aparatus (PIC or dual rec), log that time!! In regards to FTD and Sim counting towards total time, I asked the captain about this and he said United never sepatated the Sim time from his TT. Wasn't even an issue. My full motion sim time is signed off and I include that in my TT. I haven't done that on my apps but I should and I will when I apply again next year. I know plenty of people that did that and they still got the job. The airlines are not going to turn their backs on you if you counted your sim time in your TT, they'll just tell you they don't except that, subract it and move on with the rest of the interview.
Wrong. Try FAR 61.57 (a)(1)(i)
For currency purposes, you must be the sole manipulator. Since currency is the primary reason for logging landings, the industry standard is that all logged landings will qualify for legal currency purposes.
If a CFI logs all landings that his students do, then a potential empoyer would have great difficulty verifying that you had maintained LDG currecncy while employed as a CFI, since only sole manipulator LDG's count. Note: If you DEMONSTRATE a LDG to student, that counts since you were the manipulator (that's how I stayed LDG current). But LDG demonstrations aren't needed very often, and everybody knows it. I would get 1-2 LDG's each month, hopefully at night.
I'll caution new pilots against taking FAR paragraphs verbatim...there are often OTHER paragraphs elsewhere in the FAR's which apply, as well as FAA Legal Opinions, Advisory Circulars, and NTSB determinations to take into account. You really just need some experience in the business to have a good feel for it...the landing issue is just one of those things that you would know after doing it for a few years.
Also an airline might very well terminate an interview if you showed up and a significant amount of your "total time" actually turned out to be sim time...your REAL total time might be less than mins, or what was competetive for them at the time. Also they will be annoyed that you misrepresented yourself. We are in the business of flying airplanes, and flight experience is the key marker for career progression. Simulators are used for training, and real pilots don't count that as flying. If you think you're going to change the industry standard by quoting an out-of-context FAR at an interview, you're in for a surprise.
Remember, I'm here to help you, not argue about things with which I have years of experience.