Originally Posted by
Blueskies21
The Company is going to log flight time for the purposes of preventing you from timing out on FAR 117 flight time.
For other purposes they're going to use block time.
They're also advising us to log block time.
Of course, you're just as obligated as the company to be aware of your flight time for legality and that will be difficult if you're only tracking block.
I've been corrected by 2 year FO's that this is something I shouldn't worry about.
You can choose for yourself what to do with that information.
It is interesting that 121.436 does not specifically require
flight hours to upgrade, it only says
hours. Once the door closes you are still operating as a crew member with intention to fly, even if you are not 117 flying yet. Same principle with the old Hobbs meters running before movement. Block hours should be sufficient for logging purposes.
There is no maximum for
block in FAR 117 AFAIK, the limitation only applies to flight time. So, I don't see why you couldn't block more than 8/9 hours as long as your flight time remains within limits. But if you do record more than 8/9 hours of block in a day (good luck with that), just be ready to explain the difference between block and flight time, and how you and your company keep track of each. On the RARE occasion that you ever get that much block, just make a small note of the day's total flight time in the logbook..