But that F-18 goes so fast that you're covering way more sky than I would be in a Beaver. Can't you kind of pro-rate your yearly hours upward to adjust? Time versus distance covered?
Don't think I can get any conversions based on that - but some employers do seem to give some time conversions based on the fact that our times are figured from takeoff to landing. Of course every company seems to do it differently
There was a thread some time ago which talked about how to log time in the civilian world. Whether taxing and aircraft out to the end of the runway and then taxiing back was legal to log. that might not be, but it is my understanding that if you started up (hobbs meter running) and waited for 30 monutes for traffic, weather, maint., etc... and then flew for 30 minutes that you log 1.0 hr of flight time. If this were the case - I could add quite a bit more to the total time column!
But seriously, your workload has to be pretty heavy doing that, and I'd think any worth prospective employer is definately going to take what you've been doing into account. Even if your total time looks relatively low compared to other pilots.
They do...as dicussed above, and I've even heard that in some jobs you are not really competing against your civilian counterparts but the other military applicants when comparing resumes. I have no idea if this is true or not, but obviously there is something that helops us out because if not then we (military - especially tactical guys) would never be competitive against pure civilian or military heavy pilots
As I write this I remember one season a few years back where I worked with a former NFO (BN?) out of A-6's.
You've got that right. BN type of NFO. Sad thing in a way for those guys with NONE of their flight experience counting for anything. One of THE best guys I ever saw going through flight school was a BN transition.
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