Thanks, this is very helpful. I am a student pilot in the US with HK dual citizenship and ultimately want to become an airline pilot in the US but I'm not too interested in instructing my way to 1500 and thus exploring my options. How likely are SO hours recognized in the US especially by the regional carriers?
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ProgressYonder
As others have said. It’s logged as time in seat. It therefore would count as total time because you are doing cruise relief ops. You are still flying the aircraft.
P2X is a contrived creation by CX and the HKCAD to try and prevent SO’s moving on before becoming FO for CX. The initial rating at CX as of Sep 2017 is the same as what a Direct entry FO would do in the simulator. Any other authority would give you a P1 rating based off your simulator training but the HKCAD requires you to complete 3 Touch and Go’s in an actual aircraft even though a level D simulator is designed to be “as close to the real aircraft.”
Cx SO’s have been able to get positions based off there P2X experience in Aus and US as you still have jet experience. Emirates don’t recognise P2X but need for experienced crew might alter that.
In 3 years you could hit anything between 800-1200 hours depending on your roster and how effectively rostering is working. You can fly a max of 900 block hours in a year. A little under half of that 900 will be time in seat if you logging accurately. (Noting time you get in and leave the seat vs taking half the flight time).
If you are not a pilot why are you interested?