Logging Pilatus time

[USMCmech]

Feel free to explain...

If you feel uncomfortable logging that time, then don't.

If you want to record those flights, then do so. As we have shown, you are prefectly entitled to under pt 61.

Your logbook is a diary of your flying experiance. Nothing more, nothing less. Furthermore it is YOUR property, and you can do as you wish with it. "Today I flew the PC-12 with Bob on a charter. I flew the leg back for 1.2 ASEL X-cty."



My only qualification is that if the guy who is letting you fly with him is your potential boss, and he tells you specifically NOT to log it then I would follow his direction. He is wrong, but it's not worth losing a potential job over.

 

[lifter123]

My only qualification is that if the guy who is letting you fly with him is your potential boss, and he tells you specifically NOT to log it then I would follow his direction. He is wrong, but it's not worth losing a potential job over.

That's kind of why I'm playing it safe. Someday the same ins. company will look at my logbook and I don't want to lose this job if I don't have to.

Thank you.

 

[MikeOH58]

That's kind of why I'm playing it safe. Someday the same ins. company will look at my logbook and I don't want to lose this job if I don't have to.

Thank you.

The insurance company will not look at your logbook. You will fill out a pilot experience form and fax it back to them. And if your insurance company is telling you to not log time that you are entitled to log than they are idiots.

 

[Maurus]

The insurance company will not look at your logbook. You will fill out a pilot experience form and fax it back to them. And if your insurance company is telling you to not log time that you are entitled to log than they are idiots.

Yup, I have never had an insurance company ask for a copy of my log book. you just fill out your times on a sheet and go from there. The legal time you get from the Pilatus can help reduce your rates and progress you in your career. Log it.

 

[nosehair]

Insurance companies love it when we make "assumptions", and fill out forms that have undocumented or questionable qualifications.

These are the bullets needed to disqualify any claim. Insurance agents are not required to "know" what is legal time, and their sole purpose is to get you to put down whatever number you can justify in your own mind, and later if an (expensive) accident occurs, the insurance investigators job is to uncover some technical untruth in your legal qualifications.

 

[esa17]

Insurance companies love it when we make "assumptions", and fill out forms that have undocumented or questionable qualifications.

These are the bullets needed to disqualify any claim. Insurance agents are not required to "know" what is legal time, and their sole purpose is to get you to put down whatever number you can justify in your own mind, and later if an (expensive) accident occurs, the insurance investigators job is to uncover some technical untruth in your legal qualifications.

But the insurance guys are always so nice on the phone. They're the OP's friends and you're probably just a cynical old pilot.

 

[TheresaPilot]

On a side note how are you liking it? Pretty easy eh?

It's pretty easy when you have someone doing it for you.