Question about logging Redbird LD sim time

[Mach.12]

I have access to a Baron 58 Redbird LD (AATD) and am curious about how to log the time. Through searches, I know I cannot log it toward the ATP since there is not an instructor with me, but that I can log for instrument currency. AC 61-136 covers this as well.

A few questions I was hoping to get some help on.

#1 I have been logging the flight specifics in the remarks column (type, location and number of approaches/holds) How do I log the remaining data specifically, multi time, PIC, total time, high perf, complex, night?

#2 I have a multi rating, but am not current, since this can be used for instrument currency, can it be used for ME currency as well?

#3 In the admin data. I have been logging "aircraft type" as BE58, "to/from" as the airport where the device is located and in "call sign" Redbird LD AATD. Does this sound right or am I missing something?

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[Nihon_Ni]

It's great you have access to this training device! You are the envy of many!!

#1 I have been logging the flight specifics in the remarks column (type, location and number of approaches/holds) How do I log the remaining data specifically, multi time, PIC, total time, high perf, complex, night?

You don't -- Just log it as sim time. If you have a CFI with you, you can also log dual received. I don't personally add it to Total Time, because that's not how I use that total. You can use your TT column however you wish. Aside from those two (or three) columns, you shouldn't list the time in any other column. It's not flight time, so you don't log conditions of flight, PIC, etc. Nor do you log aircraft category & class, high performance, complex, or multi-engine since it isn't an aircraft. If you want to keep track of those items, make yourself a spreadsheet for your simulator sessions or list it all in the remarks.

#2 I have a multi rating, but am not current, since this can be used for instrument currency, can it be used for ME currency as well?

A sim has to be Level D to be used for landing currency. Look for the letter attached to it saying what credit the FAA will approve in it.

#3 In the admin data. I have been logging "aircraft type" as BE58, "to/from" as the airport where the device is located and in "call sign" Redbird LD AATD. Does this sound right or am I missing something?

I suggest you list the actual designator of the machine under Make & Model instead of BE58, since it isn't a Barron. For example, we have a Basic ATD at my school. In the M&M column I list "PI-135" instead of Bonanza, Skyhawk, Seneca or whatever else I decide to fly that day.

 

[MidlifeFlyer]

Let's start here: Even the best, most sophisticated simulator in the universe is NOT an aircraft. It may be, depending on its certification, be used as a replacement for some types of flight time, but NOTHING you do in a sim counts as flight time.

I have access to a Baron 58 Redbird LD (AATD) and am curious about how to log the time. Through searches, I know I cannot log it toward the ATP since there is not an instructor with me, but that I can log for instrument currency. AC 61-136 covers this as well.

You can not log time in a sim that counts toward anything without an instructor . The FAA folks wanted to change this in the October 2009 revision but they, well, sort of forgot to.

A few questions I was hoping to get some help on.

#1 I have been logging the flight specifics in the remarks column (type, location and number of approaches/holds) How do I log the remaining data specifically, multi time, PIC, total time, high perf, complex, night?

No. As I said at the beginning, it's not an aircraft. It's a simulator. A device. You're not PIC of anything while sitting safely on the ground in a mock-up, assuming you are reserving your other columns for "flight time" entries, none of the time belongs anywhere other than in a "device" column. (If you're are combining flight and non-flight time, filing out an 8710 is probably an interesting exercise and there's a potential problem if the FAA has a reason to review your entries in an investigation.) The specific "type" is not a BE58 - its what ever the type designator is for the Redbird.

#2 I have a multi rating, but am not current, since this can be used for instrument currency, can it be used for ME currency as well?

Instrument currency is category but not class specific. So even currency in a 152 = currency in a King Air. (But you have that instructor needs to be there issue.)

#3 In the admin data. I have been logging "aircraft type" as BE58, "to/from" as the airport where the device is located and in "call sign" Redbird LD AATD. Does this sound right or am I missing something?

I don't know what you mean by "admin data" so I realy can't help you there.

 

[Mach.12]

Great responses. Thanks for the info.