It all depends on where you're coming from. A fighter guy tends to have a high sortie count but low overall hours, where a heavy dude will have less sorties and more hours.

The "per sortie" method adds more hours to a point-nosed pilot's logbook where the "multiply-the-total-time" method benefits a heavy driver's logbook more significantly.

Makes me wonder if the airlines select their method intentionally based on this, according to what type of military pilot they're looking for?