So absolutely everything I said wasn't completely worthless, you at least took this away.

Something worthwhile came out of this discussion. My work here is done.

Now just ignore that if you agree it's a risk to log more than 9 hours in a day, the only really compelling argument there was for continuing to log block is consistency. If you can't log block all the time (because sometimes it would raise questions of legality), then the consistency argument is out the window.

But at least if you don't log more than 9 hrs you won't have to deal with that potential question of your logbook in an interview. You still will have falsified your logbook for those extra 5 minutes each flight that you are completely aware of (and have accurate accounting for) that don't meet the definition of FAR 1.1 but you'll never get caught, so at least there's that. Clearly some people take the "I certify these entries are true" at the bottom of each page a little liberally. True-ish. I mean, I know they don't meet FAR 1.1 definition, and I know by how much each leg, because I had to adjust it, but "true".

Now how do we tell the guys that only read the company memos; log block time unless it's over 9 hours, then don't. Because it's one of those poor unsuspecting guys that could potentially get screwed over in an interview. They will be sitting there with 11 hours on a day in their logbook and won't even know they did anything wrong because... "the company said block time" which another company won't care about.

I guess I shouldn't worry about those guys, because if they lose their opportunity for the next job, more opportunity for me. As long as I get mine, right?