Originally Posted by
rickair7777
This issue comes up occasionally.
The only rational answer I've ever been able to see is NO.
Employers do that for obvious reasons.
But there is no language in the FAR's that even hints that you can do that, it's black and white and falls back on FAR definitions of flight time.
Now if the military logs time in a manner that excludes what would otherwise be legal FAR time (ex taxi for purpose of flight) then you would be well within your rights to log that in a civilian logbook as you go and I would probably recommend that (it's just not on the radar for mil folks who have no civilian experience).
But coming back after the fact and trying to apply a blanket conversion to all your time would be very thin ice for FAA purposes IMO. That would be like a CFI not logging any time and after two years of teaching going back and estimating ten flights a week to get to 1500 hours.
The FARs define flight time different than the military. The military does not count taxi time. Therefore it is an accepted practice for military applicants to add .3 to each sortie to account for this discrepancy.
Each pilot is in charge of their own logs. If one wants to audit their military flight records and add .3 to each sortie, I think that is a completely reasonable practice and would be very conservative.