Military Conversion
 

Has anyone seen a thread on conversion time for different airlines?

I have seen 0.3 /sortie for UPS and SWA, 0.2 /sortie for FedEX on the APC hiring links.

I haven't seen anything for Alaska, CAL, Jet Blue

I've heard Alaska is .3, CAL's is automatically done on the Air App website, and not sure about JetBlue. Hang in there!!

CAL's seems to be about .3 per sortie.

JetBlue is 1.3X your total flight times...pretty nice...
Airtran does an unpublished 1.2X all flight time.
NetJets also 1.3X.

Hope this helps...

Wow, it's nice to have 1.3x per hour vs per sortie.

It all depends on where you're coming from. A fighter guy tends to have a high sortie count but low overall hours, where a heavy dude will have less sorties and more hours.

The "per sortie" method adds more hours to a point-nosed pilot's logbook where the "multiply-the-total-time" method benefits a heavy driver's logbook more significantly.

Makes me wonder if the airlines select their method intentionally based on this, according to what type of military pilot they're looking for?

Good stuff... What about pilot training time? Have you guys seen how different companies deal with that time (i.e. PIC, SIC, total time only?)

All of the advice I've seen says to treat it as total time (and turbine time) only. Using the SWA rule of thumb "only log PIC if you signed for the jet" is the most conservative route.

I logged all my UPT time as dual turbine/multi-engine time except for the solo time, which I logged PIC turbine.

Can you log other time as PIC time if you were A coded (signed for the jet)? The website says no, even though you were still the one responsible. I've read some forum replies saying that they know people who put it down as PIC time and just explains it to the interview folks.

SWA is the only airline I've seen that won't tells you not to include other time as PIC. They contradict themselves because they specifically say that it's not time as manipulator of the controls, but rather time you've signed for the jet.