Do you (other airline pilots) log instrument time?

[Hacker15e]

I figure if is less than 0.3 (about 20 minutes or so), then I won't bother logging it. That is true for flights where we depart at "night," then 20 minutes into the flight it stops being "night" time.

I'm pretty anal about my time logging and my logbook, but there is a point where you can just take it too far... nobody ever really knows how long you were in actual. Including yourself.

As a military fighter guy, I do most of my flying in VMC. If I didn't log those .1s, .2s, and .3s of actual instrument, I'd barely have any! Over a career of 1000s of individual sorties, those little times add up, fortunately.

 

[mikecweb]

Not an airline pilot (freight) but I try to log as accurate of time as possible.
I keep a log book for myself. I only have 1600 hours so maybe when I hit 10k I'll get sick of doing it but I still like looking back in it and seeing how I've progressed throughout the years.

 

[Hootie]

BS! If you're not hand flyin' then you ain't got nothin'! And I'm talkin' raw data, none of this flight director crap!

(Said completely in jest, mind you)

BS! If your not a required crewmember then you ain't got nothing! I'm talking about really needing to be there, none of this logging actual as a
ride-a-long in an airplane that requires only one person cause it's a piston twin.

(Said completely in jest, mind you)



On subject, I still log my instrument time because I am still at a stepping stone. I log it when I hit the clouds by hitting the a/c's timer and when I exit the clouds then I stop the timer, then I put the total's in my logbook, sooo complicated.

 

[Soul Brotha']

Write it down on the back of some napkins. Make sure you don't wipe your hands with it and throw it away.:laff:

 

[jtrain609]

BS! If your not a required crewmember then you ain't got nothing! I'm talking about really needing to be there, none of this logging actual as a
ride-a-long in an airplane that requires only one person cause it's a piston twin.

(Said completely in jest, mind you)

Harsh! But I can't argue much except for to say that it's legal and gets our time up a little quicker than sitting around in the mez thinking "So which one of you mothers farted THIS time!?"

 

[Hootie]

LOL, I'm just giving you a little bit of good natured crap. But between me and you bro, the reason all the line pilots give the training capts a hard time is because we are all jealous at the good deal you guys get. We're thinking "why didn't we do that"!

 

[Lee D]

I'm probably not the most uptight logbook person, but I still try to keep mine current. I just write any approaches and instrument time on my trip sheet at the end of each day, then update the logbook every few weeks. You'll also end up putting it on an 8710 when you upgrade. (Not that it matters I suppose.) I figure at this stage I still need the records. Maybe when I am a Captain at a major I won't. At least I hope to face that dilema one day. . . .

 

[Captain_Bob]

Anybody else here know T.I.N.A. ?

Bob

 

[jtrain609]

LOL, I'm just giving you a little bit of good natured crap. But between me and you bro, the reason all the line pilots give the training capts a hard time is because we are all jealous at the good deal you guys get. We're thinking "why didn't we do that"!

Oh for sure man, I know what's up

Yeah most people are like, "You get paid WHAT!? You have HOW MANY HOURS!? $@#)%(@#$)%(*#)$%(*#$)(%*)#($%*)#($%*)#($*!!!!!!!!!!"

Hate the game

 

[mikecweb]

At least you get called a Training Captain.
Airnet SICs - Pilot Trainee
Even says it on the badge.

 

[jtrain609]

Right, but I'm actually a training captain - I usually taught the guys I'm flying with.