Make sure your instructor signs your logbook with their highest level of credentials. If you are getting IFR they need to sign with CFII and not CFI. Same on multi too. I had two different CFIIs for IFR and both signed CFI. Luckily, I had 20.2 hrs with the one that was still around and got him to sign during the checkride. He literally added one "I" to his signature.
Is this something a DPE told you? I'm curious because 61.51(h)(ii) states labeling CFI or CFII is not required, as when you look up the certificate number, it will specify since the certificate number doesn't once adding on CFII. I'm working on a list of clarifications I want to send to the FAA, so this would be included!
More than, not at least, 50 nautical miles. Retired after 40 years flying. I generally used the more than 50- mile xc for certification requirements and logged all under xc.
As a safety pilot, the pilot doing the approaches has asked me to log my time as a safety pilot as PIC while they are actually practicing under the hood. Make sense?
The definition of any landing other than where you departed is strictly to cover certain operational regulations, it has no meaning for certificate qualifications. There is no legal point in logging short XC flights. I do for my own personal records(curiosity and future proofing), and occasionally an employer or insurance company will have some minimum XC time requirement (But not specify "50 miles") and all those short hops can add up to meet that generic XC time. I don't like the XC columns in the log shown in the video, they don't neatly capture the practical data objectives. Specifically the ATP qualification does not require landing at another airport, only that some waypoint of the flight is at least 50nm from the original point of departure. For private and commercial it is _landing_ at least 50nm, for Sport pilot and rotorcraft landing after 25 miles, and powered parachute is landing after 15 miles.
@@mytech6779Part 135 PIC minimums do not specify minimum XC distances. Therefore, you can log any flight with a landing at a different airport apart from the departure airport, as XC time, for the purposes of reaching part 135 XC minimums.
Well covered. Except... there is no requirement for a pilot to sign their logbook at all, let alone every page. As you pointed out with the XC and night time, paper logbooks are terrible places to record nuanced time categories. And don't get me started on logbooks with 'DUAL' time-- no such time exists in the regs.
Thank you! And yes, you are correct, only the instructor has to sign the logbook, the pilot receiving instruction does not have to sign it. Dual time is special for sure. Haha. I feel like it's really only meant for record keeping and jobs interviews.
You forgot the most basic definition: "Flight time". Contrary to popular belief pilot flight time is not tach time, hobbs time, airborne time, airborne time plus .2, billable time or whatever. Flight time is defined in 14CFR part 1: "Pilot time that commences when an aircraft moves under its own power for the purpose of flight and ends when the aircraft comes to rest after landing" aka block time.
Your logging simulated hood time section is wrong. Simulated hood does not mean it is strictly in the aircraft. AC 61-136B paragraph D.3 speaks specifically to this where you can log time in an FTD or ATD as simulated instrument if that time is under IMC. So if one uses an ATD to fly in IMC, they log both the FTD AND Simulated Hood time.
True, it only says simulated instrument time, through any means. There is no special treatment of "hood time", both approved ground training devices (simulators) and view-limiting methods in actual aircraft are listed together as equals.
Nope... you're robbing yourself of precious time. "Pilot time that commences when an aircraft moves under its own power for the purpose of flight and ends when the aircraft comes to rest after landing." Yup. Taxi out to the runup to go flying, fail the mag check, taxi back... flight time baby!
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Great video. Small correction: simulated time is either under VFR or IFR, not just in VFR (though it is in VMC).
Thank you! And yes. Correct! I’m just so used to only needing to use view limiting devices in VMC.
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Make sure your instructor signs your logbook with their highest level of credentials. If you are getting IFR they need to sign with CFII and not CFI. Same on multi too. I had two different CFIIs for IFR and both signed CFI. Luckily, I had 20.2 hrs with the one that was still around and got him to sign during the checkride. He literally added one "I" to his signature.
Is this something a DPE told you? I'm curious because 61.51(h)(ii) states labeling CFI or CFII is not required, as when you look up the certificate number, it will specify since the certificate number doesn't once adding on CFII. I'm working on a list of clarifications I want to send to the FAA, so this would be included!
More than, not at least, 50 nautical miles. Retired after 40 years flying. I generally used the more than 50- mile xc for certification requirements and logged all under xc.
50.00001nm (50nm + ¾ inch)
As a safety pilot, the pilot doing the approaches has asked me to log my time as a safety pilot as PIC while they are actually practicing under the hood. Make sense?
Absolutely, that is correct, and they can log PIC, as well, as per 61.51(e).
Thanks for the informative video. It's too bad that time spent studying by watching RUclips videos doesn't count for anything nor be logged !
I'm glad it was helpful!
What’s the point of logging cross country time less than 50 NM?
Because it is XC except for rating requirements.
The definition of any landing other than where you departed is strictly to cover certain operational regulations, it has no meaning for certificate qualifications.
There is no legal point in logging short XC flights. I do for my own personal records(curiosity and future proofing), and occasionally an employer or insurance company will have some minimum XC time requirement (But not specify "50 miles") and all those short hops can add up to meet that generic XC time.
I don't like the XC columns in the log shown in the video, they don't neatly capture the practical data objectives. Specifically the ATP qualification does not require landing at another airport, only that some waypoint of the flight is at least 50nm from the original point of departure. For private and commercial it is _landing_ at least 50nm, for Sport pilot and rotorcraft landing after 25 miles, and powered parachute is landing after 15 miles.
@@mytech6779Part 135 PIC minimums do not specify minimum XC distances. Therefore, you can log any flight with a landing at a different airport apart from the departure airport, as XC time, for the purposes of reaching part 135 XC minimums.
Well covered. Except... there is no requirement for a pilot to sign their logbook at all, let alone every page. As you pointed out with the XC and night time, paper logbooks are terrible places to record nuanced time categories. And don't get me started on logbooks with 'DUAL' time-- no such time exists in the regs.
Thank you! And yes, you are correct, only the instructor has to sign the logbook, the pilot receiving instruction does not have to sign it.
Dual time is special for sure. Haha. I feel like it's really only meant for record keeping and jobs interviews.
Why not use a spreadsheet?
You forgot the most basic definition: "Flight time". Contrary to popular belief pilot flight time is not tach time, hobbs time, airborne time, airborne time plus .2, billable time or whatever. Flight time is defined in 14CFR part 1: "Pilot time that commences when an aircraft moves under its own power for the purpose of flight and ends when the aircraft comes to rest after landing" aka block time.
True! I think people just simplify that definition into hobbs time even though it's not exactly the same thing.
Comment... one for the algo.
Your logging simulated hood time section is wrong. Simulated hood does not mean it is strictly in the aircraft. AC 61-136B paragraph D.3 speaks specifically to this where you can log time in an FTD or ATD as simulated instrument if that time is under IMC. So if one uses an ATD to fly in IMC, they log both the FTD AND Simulated Hood time.
True, it only says simulated instrument time, through any means. There is no special treatment of "hood time", both approved ground training devices (simulators) and view-limiting methods in actual aircraft are listed together as equals.
What sort of janky instructor is filling out the students' logbooks? Do they fly all of the practice maneuvers for them too?
Fixed wing - start at VR end when leaving the active runway. Helicopter - minute skids lift off the ground to hover for the departure point. 🥸
Nope... you're robbing yourself of precious time. "Pilot time that commences when an aircraft moves under its own power for the purpose of flight and ends when the aircraft comes to rest after landing." Yup. Taxi out to the runup to go flying, fail the mag check, taxi back... flight time baby!