There’s a lot of great points on here. This has and always will be a tough nut to crack. Personally I do not log time as an RFO. I would recommend against it for a few reasons that have already been stated on here during this discussion. I like my logbook to match the companies records. Our records at Atlas only distinguish between PIC and SIC. Which makes logging CA/CA flights a pain, but that’s a whole other ball of wax. In any case my logbook matches what Atlas has for me to the decimal point (thank God I switched to LogTen last year).
Worth noting, the only flight time you are required to log is for recency and to meet the requirements of a license or rating. After this 61.51 says “may log” for everything. Now for trying to get a job at another carrier? I would say most folks at Atlas do not log RFO time as PIC, and it wasn’t stopping anyone from getting hired elsewhere.
TL;DR: Log what you can prove.
Cheers,
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