Flight Training Device
I've found a few threads for FTD's but I wanted to see what everyone else's views were on this. So, I used to teach at a 141 school that had a couple Frasca sims, no projector or anything, just instruments and avionics. When ever we would instruct in the sims our chief told us to fill in the students log book with "Dual Recieved" and "Sim or FTD" time, that was it. This made perfect sense to me, so that’s what I did. Now I’m working for another, larger, 141 school and they want the student’s logbooks filled out the same way as my previous school while also logging "Simulated Instrument" time during the FTD session. Now, I wasn't sure about this because my belief is that you can only "Simulate" instrument time in an aircraft. But when I looked into the FAR's a little I found this; "61.51(g) (4): A flight simulator or flight training device may be used by a person to log instrument time, provided an authorized instructor is present during the simulated flight."
So........What did you think? Should I start logging my students FTD sessions as simulated instrument?