I came to UPT with commercial ASEL/AMEL. I haven't logged any of my dual time here as PIC (T-6 and T-38), but for future jobs what are your thoughts on claiming it all as PIC as sole manipulator of the controls? Disclaimer: I'm reserve so may be looking for civilian gigs in ~2 years.
I came to UPT with an ATP. I never logged any of my T-37 or T-38 time as PIC, either dual or solo. I alos log conservatively
Dual, because I wasn't a winged USAF pilot yet, and as such......as an ATP (talking FAA), I didn't consider logging PIC in a turbojet that I wasn't either type rated in or Form 8 qualed in (because I didn't have wings yet) to be copasetic with logging PIC; again due to my own personal method of logging and to have what I would consider to be an accurate reflection of my flight time.
Solo, granted I was sole manipulator and that rule had just change around that time (prior to that, you could log solo, but not PIC if pre-PPL), and since all my pre-PPL time was solo and not PIC; I logged my solo T-38 time (which wasn't a considerable amount) as solo only and not PIC; and I've never gone back and changed either that time nor my pre-PPL time from the 1980s.
Thats just how I log it. Of course, post-winging, I was (in my own conservative way) able to log time as PIC.
Speaking of, I also didn't log my flights when in A-10 FTU as PIC until after my Form 8 cert ride (ride #6 or so). Again, I could've logged it as sole manipulator, but wanted to keep my logbook logging consistent. As such, I missed out on 8 or so hours of PIC time there.
The difference between you and me, is that I flew considerably for a job prior to UPT, so I showed up with 4300 hours and nearly all of it as PIC, since I always flew single-pilot. So, I didn't
need the PIC time for anything, as I already had a ton. In your case, its obviously different, plus you have some regulatory latitude in that realm that I didn't have before, yet I chose to still follow the old way simply for consistency purposes.
That's just how I've always, and still, do it.
