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.
Disagree completely; the original poster detected abnormal engine conditions and correctly aborted the flight, that is a record of the events, regardless whether air borne or not.
Back in the day a Mallard duck decided to fly through the prop blades on take off roll, just before rotation. I aborted the take off, braked, cleared the active grass runway, informed ATC, and taxied back; I then did the usual shut down checks, all part of the pilot role. That all is flight time, because it is related to the operation of the aircraft.
The instructor then made me hose down the debris from the front of the cowling and complete the bird strike report for the CAA