Originally Posted by
Mink
Navy guy here, no idea about USAF flight time definitions ("Other" time?). But be careful about student time. Most airlines won't allow you to count flight time as PIC time in an aircraft you have not been "checked out" in (for USN, it's a NATOPS check). So, as a student, even during solo flights, none of it (in most cases) counts as PIC time. I always thought the student solo things was odd - if I'm in the jet all by my lonesome and I'm not the PIC, who is...? But, had not had a NATOPS check in the jet so it did not count as PIC time in the eyes of the airline app Nazis.
Old info from my airline app filling out days in the late 90's. YMMV.
Maybe I had hear that from before - but I didn't count any of that SNA time as PIC either; but like you - if I signed for the plane and was the only one in the plane - what other time could it be?
My memory is going bad and/or it has just been too long in any case - but I didn't even remember that we didn't get NATOPS checks in those aircraft - just instrument checks.
USMCFLYR