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Old 21st Dec 2020, 06:42
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Lead Balloon
 
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No ‘flight’, so nothing to record.


Nobody’s looked at the most important definition: That of “flight” in the Civil Aviation Act. It says, with my underlining:
flight means: (a) in the case of a heavier‑than‑air aircraft, the operation of the aircraft from the moment at which the aircraft first moves under its own power for the purpose of taking‑off until the moment at which it comes to rest after being airborne; and

(b) in the case of a lighter‑than‑air aircraft, the operation of the aircraft from the moment when it becomes detached from the surface of the earth or from a fixed object on the surface of the earth until the moment when it becomes again attached to the surface of the earth or a fixed object on the surface of the earth.
Funny thing is, under the ‘old’ rules and definitions you would have been able to log it as PIC time because - crazy as it may seem to some - you were PIC doing PIC stuff throughout, including the important decision to reject a take-off. That’s a few decades of ‘reform’ for ya....
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