Originally Posted by
tjcagney
Nobody is downplaying the situation but you have to recognise flight time IS time in flight. It's not the time performing actions before of after a flight important though they are up to and including a catastrophe. Flight = Flight. Airtime.
Errrrmmmm, n
ope. ‘Flight time’ is not just time airborne.
The Australian (and ICAO) definition of ‘flight time’ covers some time before the aircraft becomes airborne and some time after the aircraft ceases being airborne. ‘Flight time’ is about an individual’s aeronautical experience (which is why a rejected take off
should count). How far the definition reaches before take off and after landing has been and will continue to be the subject of many (many) debates.
In Australia, aircraft ‘time airborne’ is called ‘time in service’. ‘Time in service’ is about aircraft maintenance management and continuing airworthiness.