Originally Posted by
rickair7777
The hard deck for employers however is that they can't hire you if you don't meet the FAA mins for at least an R-ATP.
Right, but as I said initially, 100 of these hours can come from a sim, and various companies do allow for the conversion. So you absolutely can get hired with less than 750 military logged flight hours.
Originally Posted by
rickair7777
There is absolutely no regulatory provision to grant mil aviators an extra 30% on top of their logged mil flight time for any FAA purpose.
Attempting to do so for purposes of aeronautical experience for a cert or rating would be logbook fraud. The universal penalty for that is revocation of all airman certs. This is not a "run it up the flagpole" or "better to beg forgiveness" kind of situation.
You're right there is no regulation from the FAA about the conversion, but the conversion still exists. I have military friends that have taken advantage of the conversions by United and other companies to reach minimums, which basically means the company is willing to vouch that you actually have the minimum hours. The FAA apparently has no problem with this. But this leaves a regulatory gap. Why is someone below mins allowed to convert their military times via an employer for an FAA certification, but someone who tries to without the backing of an employer unable to?
I have no intention of converting the time myself and plan on logging only what my military docs say, but I am planning on calling the local FSDO come monday.