....carried over from "top 10" thread
The BL (bottom line) is, there's always those pilots that need flying time so much in order to get their right-seat gig flying at ClownAir that they'll weasel any 0.1 PIC by interchangeably being "acting" PIC vs "flying" PIC vs "necessary" PIC as safety pilot, etc, etc. Same with trying to log actual as a non-instrument PVT just because they ended up at night between Phoenix and Flagstaff, horizon or not. I knew one idiot PPL that took off from PRC on a clear night with good stars/ground horizon, flew to the northwest where there few ground lights for 1.0, then turned around and flew back to PRC. Logged the whole thing as actual because on the way out, there was no horizon (never mind the stars/sky vs ground with the brigtness of a 3/4 moon) and on the way back, the lights of PRC were so bright, he had to stare at the attitude indicator the whole way so he wouldn't get blinded!
This is the crock of crap being logged into so many logbooks that I've seen in my time. All because he wants to get to Mesa or Great Lakes faster than the other guy. A logbook is something I don't screw with. It's bound by your integrity and nothing else. That's why I don't finagle/finesse/massage/eek out/stretch/read into/con/lawyerize/try to figure out the "spirit" vs "intent", or suit to my own personal needs, the logging of flight time. That's why I don't "Johnny Cochran" the whole "....with intent to fly" regards to including taxi time somehow being flight time; "paid to fly" vs "paying to fly" regards whether I feel I "deserve" that extra 0.2; or all night time being actual; or the whole PIC BS.
Never did it when I was a Private pilot, don't do it now, and haven't done it in-between. And my honest black-ink entries in my soon-to-be third complete logbook have gotten me everywhere I've wanted to go in this industry. Have I potentially missed out on some 0.1s or 0.2s here and there? Yes, I probably have. But I'd rather have completely accurate logbooks, than flight time built on stretches, personal-helping interpertations, what I feel I deserve, or other BS. There's many a flight I remember simply because the logbook entry I made is so thorough, so correct, it reflects the true nature of what went on that particular flight. I remember them like they occurred yesterday. That's something that can't be done with logbooks built on questionable flight times/flight conditions.
Those 3 logbooks have spoken for themselves many times over, and will continue to do so.
MD
The BL (bottom line) is, there's always those pilots that need flying time so much in order to get their right-seat gig flying at ClownAir that they'll weasel any 0.1 PIC by interchangeably being "acting" PIC vs "flying" PIC vs "necessary" PIC as safety pilot, etc, etc. Same with trying to log actual as a non-instrument PVT just because they ended up at night between Phoenix and Flagstaff, horizon or not. I knew one idiot PPL that took off from PRC on a clear night with good stars/ground horizon, flew to the northwest where there few ground lights for 1.0, then turned around and flew back to PRC. Logged the whole thing as actual because on the way out, there was no horizon (never mind the stars/sky vs ground with the brigtness of a 3/4 moon) and on the way back, the lights of PRC were so bright, he had to stare at the attitude indicator the whole way so he wouldn't get blinded!
This is the crock of crap being logged into so many logbooks that I've seen in my time. All because he wants to get to Mesa or Great Lakes faster than the other guy. A logbook is something I don't screw with. It's bound by your integrity and nothing else. That's why I don't finagle/finesse/massage/eek out/stretch/read into/con/lawyerize/try to figure out the "spirit" vs "intent", or suit to my own personal needs, the logging of flight time. That's why I don't "Johnny Cochran" the whole "....with intent to fly" regards to including taxi time somehow being flight time; "paid to fly" vs "paying to fly" regards whether I feel I "deserve" that extra 0.2; or all night time being actual; or the whole PIC BS.
Never did it when I was a Private pilot, don't do it now, and haven't done it in-between. And my honest black-ink entries in my soon-to-be third complete logbook have gotten me everywhere I've wanted to go in this industry. Have I potentially missed out on some 0.1s or 0.2s here and there? Yes, I probably have. But I'd rather have completely accurate logbooks, than flight time built on stretches, personal-helping interpertations, what I feel I deserve, or other BS. There's many a flight I remember simply because the logbook entry I made is so thorough, so correct, it reflects the true nature of what went on that particular flight. I remember them like they occurred yesterday. That's something that can't be done with logbooks built on questionable flight times/flight conditions.
Those 3 logbooks have spoken for themselves many times over, and will continue to do so.
MD
