Originally Posted by
wwings
Speaking of pencil whipping log books,
I might not get much honesty on this forum, but just how prevalent is the practice?
When I sit in a new hire class at a regional, how much of the experience is real?
I've been to two different airline interviews (hired into a pool for both) and it's been my experience that my logbook was barely looked at. Captain/HR giving the interview thumbs through it (seemingly) absent-mindedly while listening to my answers to technical questions or something. As best as i recall, I was never asked questions about my time and my logbook.
Discuss!
I was flying with a guy who does interviews. He said that he was thumbing through an applicats logbook and the guy had written in 8 hrs of banner towing on 9/11/01. He asked him about it and the guy said that "he had a long day that day." Needless to say that he wasn't hired.
I think there is a lot of time that is logged that should not be really considered. Situations where two friends fly together and both log PIC time. Situations where two guys rent a twin and an instructor sits in the back seat and all three log PIC-Multi time. Is the time log-able...according to the FAR's....probably. Is it really experience.....maybe, maybe not.