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.
That's essentially what I'm talking about. There is nothing more or less "official" about a logbook you keep like this than a normal civilian logbook. The only difference would be the aircraft type in that column of the logbook. Just wondered if anyone else had done this with any success.
If I was an examiner I would throw out your "converted" mil time that you included taxi time to. It's not how the military logs time and it's not what was certified in your official records. You're really rolling the dice on that one.
Yeah its a dice roll, just seeing if anyone else had tried this. I don't personally see an issue with it. Its not "converted," its actual. If I tried some voodoo like adding .2 or .3 for each sortie flown to the total flight time, that's where it would be questionable in my mind.