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Old 10-07-2021 | 05:57 PM
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Originally Posted by DontLookDown
Everyone is saying get current.

One way to do that is with a good sim. A lot of flight schools offer monthly rates. You could prob pay a couple hundred bucks and have a months worth of unlimited Redbird time to get confident with approaches, flows, checklists, approach plates and briefings, emergencies and failed instruments….

you’ll be flying a sim during training so the sim environment might be better once you do a couple currency flights in an actual plane
Who logs sim time? No. Read FAR 61.51 in terms of logging sim time. Red bird time outside of maybe working with an instructor towards an instrument training should never be logged, and certainly not as actual flight time. Your currency would still be zero hours of flight time in the last 12 months.

A redbird is just a fancy desktop sim, and not a real certified full motion sim.

Apply and see what happens. Fly what you can. There are jobs that will hire you, but they may not be very good jobs. There are regionals that will hire with zero currency.
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Old 10-07-2021 | 11:43 PM
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Originally Posted by FlyGuy2021
Who logs sim time? No. Read FAR 61.51 in terms of logging sim time. Red bird time outside of maybe working with an instructor towards an instrument training should never be logged, and certainly not as actual flight time. Your currency would still be zero hours of flight time in the last 12 months.

A redbird is just a fancy desktop sim, and not a real certified full motion sim.

Apply and see what happens. Fly what you can. There are jobs that will hire you, but they may not be very good jobs. There are regionals that will hire with zero currency.
I mean, tons of regional guys got hired at 1475ish hours because they get the rest in the sim. So quite a few people log sim time.
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Old 10-08-2021 | 03:20 AM
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The point of “sim” time is proficiency so you are ready to pass 121 training, not logging time or faa box checking

and if you do want to log time, there are lots of details about which devices count towards what in which situation. But again… not the point
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