Originally Posted by
Grumble
Why would you log taxi time? That's retarded. Not sure how airlines track maint flight hours, but if it's like the military, by logging taxi time you're adding additional hours to the airframe that weren't actually flown, thus pushing it into phases earlier, inspections before needed, and thus costing money. Plus you're now a pencil whipper. I've never logged anything that didn't involve getting air under the tires. If I could have every maint cancel I could probably add another 100 hours... but it wasn't "FLIGHT" time.
I never logged that either for the exact reasons that you mention. If I remember though back in my civvie days - if I paid for an hour of Hobbs time then I logged an hour. Of course I doubt any of my time on the ground was ever more than a .1 or .2 MAX!
Originally Posted by
PAMR Pilot
I am assuming all 121 carriers report times the same. We report OUT/OFF and ON/IN times.
OUT = Out of the Block (gate)
OFF = Takeoff (wheels off the ground)
ON = Landing (wheels on the ground)
IN = In to the Block (gate)
We log our pilot time based on OUT to IN (Gate to Gate). However, the company maintenance is based on OFF to ON (Takeoff to Landing).
So for those LLLLOOONNNGGG delays where you are sitting on the taxiway waiting for takeoff for an hour or more - that time is being logged but it isn't counting against engine maintenance times or moving the aircraft closer to inspections based on engine/airframe hours?
USMCFLYR