Restricted ATP for NFOs?
#91
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F4E MX I totally understand helping a mil buddy out, but the law is law, that's not like looking the other way when someone has a bad landing, or even a bad day, you can't just "help out" with a couple thousand hours, even a few 100,
The question in the beginning was can the NFO log other time towards the ATP, myself and others have shown why you can't in the FAR's sorry, nothing personal.
To be honest I've flown with guys who fly great, even nav's! Lol but don't have licenses, I can't just give them one because we're buds in the mil,
Good luck on the time building,
We're all in the same boat, some just a little further along.....
#92
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FAR 61.51 would seem to be open to a lot of interpretations to say the least. I was in the USAF at Eglin but a member of a Navy flying club in Pensacola. My aero club instructor was also a T-28 instructor at Whiting. What you seem to be saying is that my IP could give me instruction in a civilian T-28 that would be legal, but it would be illegal in a Navy model? Or after I had my Commercial, multi, and instrument we could have flown a civilian T-28 cross country to see our families and friends and split the time, but could not do the same in the eyes of the FAA if we used a Navy T-28. Is that what you are really saying?
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Yes, but, the only way around that would be if the mil agency who has operational control authorizes it, good luck there... and your both under FAA rules, I.e. Civ flight instructor and civ student in training for a rating or cert, and your operating under part 91, but that's not the scenario in the question asked originally.
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FAR 61.51 would seem to be open to a lot of interpretations to say the least. I was in the USAF at Eglin but a member of a Navy flying club in Pensacola. My aero club instructor was also a T-28 instructor at Whiting. What you seem to be saying is that my IP could give me instruction in a civilian T-28 that would be legal, but it would be illegal in a Navy model? Or after I had my Commercial, multi, and instrument we could have flown a civilian T-28 cross country to see our families and friends and split the time, but could not do the same in the eyes of the FAA if we used a Navy T-28. Is that what you are really saying?
#95
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Well, Grumble, USAF Navigators, Navy NFOs, even Maintenance Officers have managed to get hired as pilots by the airlines. You were probably one of the Navy pilots who referred to NFOs as having "No Future Outside". Not always.
#96
Military guys seem to think that if you're not operating under the FARs then you're precluded from "overlaying" FAR activities on top of what you're doing. Not the case at all, unless the FARs were to specifically forbid certain FAR activities in, on, or around military aircraft (they don't). You'd need to do your homework though...
If you can legally accomplish something in compliance with both NATOPS and the FARs, then you can take credit under both as well. The usual case in point is mil guys taking ATP checkrides in mil aircraft.
#97
Regarding "intent to do training"....
1) It's not spelled out in the regs.
2) But the concept has been clearly established FAA enforcement precedent in the context of if you're going to log dual, there had better be a REASONABLE intent and expectation that training is occurring...this is to prevent folks from sitting right seat in single-pilot airplanes and logging zillions of hours as "dual received". But there appears to be reasonable latitude as to what legit training could be, not just training for a cert/rating/FR/IPC but also club checkouts, insurance checkouts, aircraft fam, route/area fam, etc. Reasonable limits on the amount of hours logged would apply, based on what's realistic to accomplish the task at hand, ie you can't log 400 hours of dual XC in a seminole and justify that it as "aircraft fam" or training for an ME/MEI.
1) It's not spelled out in the regs.
2) But the concept has been clearly established FAA enforcement precedent in the context of if you're going to log dual, there had better be a REASONABLE intent and expectation that training is occurring...this is to prevent folks from sitting right seat in single-pilot airplanes and logging zillions of hours as "dual received". But there appears to be reasonable latitude as to what legit training could be, not just training for a cert/rating/FR/IPC but also club checkouts, insurance checkouts, aircraft fam, route/area fam, etc. Reasonable limits on the amount of hours logged would apply, based on what's realistic to accomplish the task at hand, ie you can't log 400 hours of dual XC in a seminole and justify that it as "aircraft fam" or training for an ME/MEI.
#98
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I know Helo aircrewmen flying at the regionals right now, it wasn't because they lied and said they were actually SIC.
NFO still means no future outside... It's why the NFO bonus has been axed and pilot bonuses in the Navy are still running $50-$125k. Get over it, it's just the way it is.
Exactly, point being though they are winged aviators in an airplane they're already rated in.
#99
In AF multi-seat planes, IF the mission requires IP status, that us, doing t-gs, recurrent or upgrade training, it goes in the 781 as IP time. If I when out, in command, with current and qualified pilots, it was MP time or MC time, if I wasn't command. There has to be a reason to be acting as the IP, same with the FAA.
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Totally old thread that no one is paying attention to anymore but I found it interesting to read. I was an S-3 NFO many moons ago. 3710 says that copilot time can be logged by anyone with an aeronautical designation (1320 is one) so I kept track of my front seat time. Later, I transitioned to pilot and flew P-3's, T-34's and C-12's and now I instruct at FSI. We still get the occasional NFO but of course do not redesignate them. They simply fly as a copilot (which the 3710 allows). My kids are all off to college so I am currently considering applying for airlines (who isn't) but did not include my S-3 time as SIC. There is a block for "other time" on airline apps so I have like 2000 hours of that. As a 1500 hour S-3 NFO with nearly 800 hours in the front seat, hours and hours of stick time including formation and field T/O and Landings, I think it is a real shame that the time is not considered. Really doesn't make any sense to me when I weigh my S-3 copilot time against C-12 or P-3 SIC time. But that is the way it is. Fortunately I have enough time to not need it but the extra 800 hours of turbojet SIC time would have been nice. Just between you, me and the fence post, I felt like flight school was overkill. I had already received great instruction from some of the best pilots in the world for almost 5 years. And as I mentioned, S-3 COTAC time is valuable and the lack of official VT pilot training time is inconsequential.
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