Return to Gate - logbook

[nonsense]

Originally Posted by EC-KIY

EASA definition:
Flight Time: "the total time from the moment an aircraft first moves for the purpose of taking off until the moment it finally comes to rest at the end of the flight"

Therefore the ground return is a flight, and all of it counts towards "total flight time" column in your logbook. However, no takeoff nor landing performed.
It wouldn't be "flight time" if you were asked to just taxi the aircraft from one stand to another, because you didn't have the purpose of taking off.

Look at this interesting PDF of differences in definitions between ICAO and EASA:
https://hub.easa.europa.eu/crt/docs/...a2c5e3dc49970c

Apparently under ICAO, an F111 with swing wings is not an aeroplane!

"Aeroplane A power-driven heavier-than-air aircraft, deriving its lift in flight chiefly
from aerodynamic reactions on surfaces which remain fixed under given
conditions of flight."