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Lead Balloon View Post The obligation to log flight time, as defined, in the regulations is unaffected by how an aircraft hirer chooses to charge for the use of the aircraft
Sometimes there can be quite a disparity between what is logged in the maintenance release and what the customer is invoiced. Some helo tasks require considerable ground running, one operator at least, charged the customer for the total running time while the maintenance release had the correctly defined flight time recorded.