When people bring up the "interview problem," it always leaves me wondering and a little frightened - if the airlines really don't understand (or don't like) the FAA's rules on how to keep time in logbooks, what other FAA rules don't they understand (or refuse to follow because they don't like them).

I'm not talking about employers who will discount that (or any other legitimate) time because they don't think it's valuable experience-wise. That's perfectly ok.

But this idea that the airlines insist that the FARs don't allow this time to be kept and counted toward FAA requirements for qualification and currency, if true, is very worrisome.