Is Other Time worthless?
 

I know Delta doesn’t accept Other time according to AirlineApps, but do other Legacy/Major/ULCC/Cargo carriers incorporate Other time in their TT calculations?

I was unfortunate to be assigned to an overmanned platform that was slowly diverting g without doing anything about manning…needless to say I have ~500hrs of other time.

Worthless? Of coruse not. It's experience.

Can you claim it or use it for a job application?

No, not unless you can claim it as second in command, or you can find a classification appropriate to that time under 14 CFR 61.51.

If you went to the trouble to log your time in your own logbook using civilian standards some of it might be worth something. However, if there is a difference between what your flight records show your times are and what your civilian logbook and application show, you may have an uncomfortable and unproductive conversation at the interview. Ultimately, your best bet would be to apply where you want to go now, but also apply to some safety net jobs (ULCC, Guard, Reserve, etc).

I'll keep it simple. Yes, it is worthless.

Yes..........

If you logged SIC time, that is, as the augmenting pilot, its legal in accepting with FAR 61. If, OTOH, you're the fourth or fifth pilot, it's not. If you're the PUC, but divided up up the time in thirds, FP, CO, Other, you need to use a civil compliant log

Yep. This is the way in Navy big wing flying with more than 2 pilots. One PIC of record gets all the PIC time regardless of how much pilot time they actually log in their Navy logbook. Pretty common to just divide up pilot time 20/40/40 among the 3 pilots with the PIC getting the 20.
So yeah, some "other" time can count but you need to convert it to a civilian log where you count all your PIC time as PIC time if you fall into this category.

This^. If you were in command while logging other time, you’re still the PIC.

When I was applying I had 4 hours of "other" time that was actually dual received, per FAA equivalent stnadards (I was at the controls of a dual-control trainer with an instructor in the other seat). But I couldn't "prove it". Various other simillar logging issues caused a 12 hour discrepancy between my HARM totals and my logbook totals. So just in case it came up, I had a short summary sheet explaining as much of the discrepancy as I could. I had a single line on that page with a note something like "4 hours T-38 dual received was recorded as other time", and left it at that.

Which comes to my suggestion - if you have 500 "other" hours, that's big enough to show up somewhere either as a totals discrepancy or as a perceived gap in flying where you logged far fewer hours in a year or more than would be expected of an active pilot. So again, put it on a sheet of talking points just in case it comes up. If the interviewer notices and asks something like why you logged only 200 PIC hours in a 2 year period, you can pull out your notes and confidently state that your unit had a manning or whatever issue so they were cycling all their pilots through on the jumpseat, and you had 500 "other" hours in that timeframe that you did not include in your logbook totals even though they are included in your HARM records. As long as you have a reasonably solid answer and didn't try to pad your logbook hours with the other time, they shouldn't care. Chances are they won't even notice if your claimed logbook hours are in the ballpark for someone with your flying history.

I had over 500 other time. Mine was a function of large augmented crews flying long augmented days. Which translated well to airline flying, so not useful on paper, but I got a job at the major of my choice.