Originally Posted by
RazzorAPC
From day 1 keep an official FAA compliant civilian logbook during your military time, then you log EACH your military flights and civilian flights same as you would civiluan time (including taxi time). Then your logbook is your "official" flight time. That is the best way to do it. then you would just need to show your checkride/ aircraft rating forms from your military records (This serves as Endorsementds in your logbook) along with your official signed-by-you log book.
This should work fine.
Trying to apply a conversion factor for FAA purposes after-the-fact to time logged in the military fashion would probably not work out well.
But if you keep two books you should discuss it with airline management. You don't want to use civilian style time on an airline app where they are going to add a factor on top of it. But when you fill out an 8710 in training using civilian-style logging, those numbers will not match what was on your application. Just make sure they know in advance.
If you don't actually need the conversion for ATP mins, I would just stick with mil time the way it's logged in the mil. But it's OK (in fact it's a good idea) to keep two books just in case you need it.