Originally Posted by warhawk

flycrj200, I found your comment interesting. When I was just starting out in this industry, and interviewing at my first 121 airline, I had over 300 hours of FTD time that I had kept track of (logged) in my log book. All of this time was without an instructor. At the time I had all sorts of "industry experts" telling me that I couldn't log this time in my log book, yet none of them could ever seem to tell me what FAR they were using to back up their assertion. Anyway, I got the job, as a low time pilot, and the chief pilot told me that one of things that impressed him about me was that I had taken the initiative to do all those practice approaches on my own, even though the sim time could not be credited towards any rating. So perhaps airlines do look at FTD time after all. Hmmm... Just a thought.