Originally Posted by
rickair7777
You could grant 2-for-1 credit for say instructor time. That's pretty easy to document and verify, and risky to fabricate.
Hard IMC, turbine, ME, even night flying is also reasonably valuable but it's a lot easier to game that sort of experience, or just fabricate it. You could pay some guy to ride along in his kerosene burner and log it without knowing a thing about the plane or touching a single control. You can pencil whip all the IMC you want, as long as it wasn't all in Arizona in the spring time.
Totally agree about the difficulty in documenting other-than-dual given scenarios. And at the same time I'm also not convinced that instructing is somehow the gold standard of time building. It builds some skills, but weather avoidance and upset training seems to be two areas which are problematic. Some CFIs just aren't very good pilots, so it seems like there'd need to be a way to vet them.
Maybe being able to fly the IAC Primary sequence should be added to the ATP ACS.
