Logging Flight Time Using Decimals
08-09-2007 | 07:32 PM
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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
08-09-2007 | 09:44 PM
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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.
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.
08-10-2007 | 04:38 AM
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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
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
08-10-2007 | 04:45 AM
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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.
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