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dckozak
02-02-2024 09:38 AM
Originally Posted by JohnBurke
(Post 3762483)
Attempting to put simulator time in the "total time" or "duration of flight" (depending on the logbook) looks bad, regulation aside. That may not matter if one doesn't intend to present one's logbooks to a potential employer. If one does, it behooves one to take better care of the log, make it neat, make it match and the math make sense, and to put the time in the proper columns.
I wouldn't argue with that. Sim is clearly not flight. My peeve is the complexity of the regs related to fight experience, particularly within the commercial reg. FAR 61.51 details how it expects simulator time to be logged, so it does expect that it will be documented and have its own, separate column. That total time, alluded to in 61.159 is not a discreet column is just another potential ”gottacha” that any pilot could make clerical errors, which may not reflect on the airmanship of the applicant but would on their attention to (clerical) detail.
