Originally Posted by STILL GROUNDED
Quite honestly I don't think anybody gives a rip, if you go to a regional with a thousand hours in your log book and 200 in the multi column Nobody and I mean Nobody is going to sit there and decide what was logged as 1.1 PIC...
Majors will. And even regionals do...at least as far as to be sure you'll meet the ATP requirements of 61.159... i.e. the 250 hours of flight time in an airplane as PIC (including 100 hours x-c PIC time and 25 hours of PIC night, or any of the related credits to those times). We want to make sure you will meet the ATP requirements when you upgrade, with just SIC time going forward. We are not really interested in having you have to run out right before upgrade and buy 50 hours of C-152 time just to meet ATP mins. It has happened...
But you are right. It's about the only thing we check for. CFI's are usually no problem. Where we run into this problem is with the guy who got "lucky" and ended up with a right seat job somewhere as a wet-ticket Commercial pilot.