Hi all,

Just got hired at a regional recently, and start training in a couple months. I'm about 140 hours shy of the 700 I need to start training (50 sim hours will be accomplished during training that can count towards total flight time), and I'm unlikely to fly more than 40 hours at my unit in the six or so months before I start training, so it looks like it'll be tight making the hours up. Luckily I've got access to a small plane for cheap time-building, but the fewer hours I have to pay for out of pocket, the better.

I have three logbooks, one that is purely civilian time, one that is military time exactly as it appears on the 781/HARM records, and one that is all my military flights using the FAA 1.1 definition of flight time (so it includes all the taxi time). I understand some airlines use a military conversion for the purpose of hiring selection, so I used the strictly military log times for Airline Apps (per the instructions, I didn't apply any conversion factor myself and entered it exactly as it is in the military records). The military conversions are just for the airline during hiring, and the FAA still uses no conversion factor on your military time when you show up for your R-ATP at the end of training, right? So I'm thinking I should plan to include my third logbook (military time logged the "civilian way") in the hours for my R-ATP and leave the purely military logbook at home. Does sound like it would present a problem, or has anyone done this? I wouldn't care except that its a significant number of hours (when my unit isn't flying and I'm paying for the rest of the hours).

Any additional wisdom is also appreciated, as always.