Originally Posted by
CAFB 04-12
The PIC question comes up constantly in the KC-135 community because of the hours requirements as aircraft commander before touch and go certification and instructor school. We pretty much just applied the rule of thumb of: 1 AC deployment = definitely has the hours for touch and go; 2 AC deployments = definitely has the hours for instructor upgrade. I'm generally the only pilot in my squadron who knows how many sorties/hours he has as the A-coded guy. I guess to get actual PIC time I could filter for A-code sorties then look at PRI time. Of course, I've also applied the standard of splitting PRI and SEC evenly with the other guy. So I guess there's no real way to know exactly how much I've been at the controls of a jet I've signed for.
The Air Force needs to calculate PIC and SIC. Nobody outside of the chair force wants to know how much time you've had in the seat. They want to know how many flights/hours you were PIC, the challenges and experiences you've had. And now it appears so does the Air Force.