Originally Posted by
Genghis the Engineer
(1) Because I used my UAS Bulldog time towards my first PPL (multiple decades ago, when it was normal and permitted).
(2) Because I was a military qualified Flight Test Observer at Boscombe Down, and a lot of those hours are FTO hours, relevant to my ongoing flight test career, if not my pilots licences. My FTO and Mission Scientist time are all in the same logbooks as my pilot flying, just not in the same columns, and not used for any pilot qualification totals. My preference as it's a personal logbook - but arranged in a way to make carefully sure that no authority could misinterpret it, as I should
My military hours are a very small proportion of my total time now, but they weren't once, and there's some very interesting flying in there that I like to record in one place.
Similarly my CAA and FAA flying are both in one logbook, just with completely different totals because of the very different logging rules for the two authorities. I'm very far from unique in that.
G
Thanks for making that clear. I think the OP was talking about pilot hours so your UAS hours are relevant to the discussion, albeit not so relevant these days, but you keeping interesting other non-pilot flying in the logbook less so.