Logging Flight Time Using Decimals
 

Perhaps a silly questions, or not. From a professional standpoint, would most carriers prefer to see flight time logged not using decimals points? - Thanks

huh? like 3.2 hours of flight time if it was a trip? what else would you do, 3 and 1/8 or something? I guess I don't fully understand

u...me..and 47 other people....

I've seen a rare few who log their flight time using two places after the decimal point.

Weird.

I think it's a valid question. I believe he's asking if he should use 3.2, or say, 3:12.

I use the decimal system, because that's what I had been using since my first flight lesson. The first airline I flew for had a minute-to-decimal conversion table in their GOM. It's kind of funny that after converting all of the times to decimals using their table, the decimal times were always a little bit less than the minute times after you started adding them up.

hum.... i understand the question now... but I dont think I know anyone who ever logged the personal book that way.

I believe his is asking 3.2 or just 3, right?

Decimals or minutes. The professional standard is pretty much hours and tenths- ie 2.4.

Block time is logged in minutes (2:28), then converted to decimal points (2.5).

Here's a good scale to use:

0-3 minutes = .0
4-9 = .1
10-15 = .2
16-21 = .3
22-27 = .4
28-33 = .5
34-39 = .6
40-45 = .7
46-51 = .8
52-57 = .9
58-63 = 1.0

Makes no difference, he means 3hr 10min = 3.2 vs 3:10. In most parts of the world the log hrs:min format, in the USA hrs:tenths is the norm. Airlines in the United States could care less, either way is fine, no idea about the rest of the world.

ah, gotcha. I use tenths. That is how the majority of people do it