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10-18-2006, 12:28 PM

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JollyF15

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Hacker, forget the log book dude

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Originally Posted by Hacker15e

These are from each company's website:

Southwest: Add .3 per sortie
FedEx: Add .2 per sortie
JetBlue: Multiply total time by 1.3
Continental: Approximately .3 per sortie, which is automatically calculated by a tool on the website when you submit your application. No preflight addition is required, just the time and the number of sorties from your AFORMS
AirTran: I have seen both 1.2 x total flight time AND .3 per sortie reported

Looks like you can add it into your total time, but not in any PIC time. 300 hours from UPT?! I only had 206 hours...

Hacker,
Unless you are trying to pad your hours to get an ATP, I would not even bring a log book. Just bring your flight records and make sure it matches your resume'. That's what I did at FedEx and NWA for my interviews and they were fine with that. They undertand that a fighter guy will have less hours than a heavy guy. Don't know how they compare military time to civilian, but now we are getting into apples and oranges. The hardest part is getting the interview, make sure your application reflects what's on your flight records, doing the conversion just opens a can of worms in my opinion.

Jolly

10-18-2006, 02:54 PM

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C17MooseDriver

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Hacker15e

What is the purpose of the 90%?

This is the rule of thumb that everyone in my squadron seems to be using. Because, all the hours you fly after upgrading to AC isn't all A Coded time. You've might have flown with another AC that was A coded instead, you flew an LTM and so forth.

10-18-2006, 04:28 PM

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Hacker15e

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Quote:

Originally Posted by JollyF15

Hacker,
Unless you are trying to pad your hours to get an ATP, I would not even bring a log book. Just bring your flight records and make sure it matches your resume'.

I guess since all my time is PIC turbine, it's not tough to figure out those numbers, eh?

10-19-2006, 04:10 AM

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TankerDriver

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Originally Posted by C17MooseDriver

Obviously, the best thing to do is to start keeping your own records early on, but not everyone thinks about it until it's too much a$$pain to go back. If you had an electronic logbook or even your own paper logbook, you could keep track of when you had the A code and when you didn't and log them PIC/SIC.