Originally Posted by
hydrostream
I've kept a personal logbook since my first flight after flight school. It was accurate to the .1 up until I left my last unit. At some point, and I have no idea what happened, I lost about 150 hours worth of flight time in the Army digital logs. I talked to our records guy and he's willing to try and get some of it back, but he's hesitant to decertify and correct all of it since I don't have my original -12 printouts showing they were there. Totally understandable.
So anyways, I've applied to a couple airlines now. On my applications I have used only the flight time from my Army records. My big question is in regards to cross country time. The only place I have tracked that is in my personal log, so if they ask to see it they are going to see the disparity in my total time. Any guidance on how I should handle this? Re-do my personal log to mirror my Army logs and eat the flights that aren't in there? I don't want to look like I'm trying to get away with something.
If you have a logbook of all your individual flights, print it out and find the discrepancies and ask FLOPS to fix it. That said, 150 is a lot, and should have been corrected prior to ETS/retiring. I know how hard that is, as I fought the special folks in flight ops annually screwing up my times, on top of the army computers screwing them up. I had a very detailed logbook starting after flight school, showed it all, and got around 35 hours back on my last close out. Just says something along the lines of “35 hours added for flight hour corrections, certified by 1LT so and so.”
If your flight ops won’t change it, I’d adjust your personal logbook that you provide to airlines to match your 759. Keep that time for you, but for them I’d make them match. Probably not a huge deal, but could raise some eyebrows with interviewers, especially non-mil guys who don’t understand how bad the army’s system is. They could think that you can’t keep your records straight, or worse, that you are misrepresenting your flight time. Worst case, 150 hours of helo time likely won’t make a difference for any airline apps...if you meet mins at a regional you are good, and your helo time won’t count for much at the majors.
Try to use just the 759, and if they ask, have your XC time from your logbook listed somewhere that you can claim XXX hours of XC from. Perhaps a simple logbook entry with single line entries for each acft flown in the army (matching your 759), and XC for each acft from your detailed logbook. Avoids your flight by flight logbook and associated discrepancies being an issue, and you can legitimately and accurately list your XC time in those single line entries.