Originally Posted by
Gordy
They are the people who should log hours. As someone who regularly hires pilots, I do a background check and call previous employers. I may never be able to verify hours down to the exact number, but I will get a good indication of how many hours the applicant should have.
In terms of skill set---if they claim 200 hours of mountain time, I can fid out real quick---I am lucky to have Shasta Bally, a 6,000' mountain a mere 17 miles from our base at 500'. It becomes obvious real quick when I load an aircraft to max gross for those conditions and have them fly me up there.
In other words, a logbook means almost nothing.