PF#1,
You occasionally make some good points, but spoil this by your continual condescending and arrogant manner of expressing them. You are the one who is haughty and pompous, not Nick Lappos. Like
When the blades are turning, the airframe is moving. When the airframe is moving, you are logging time. Period. Why there needs to be any discussion about this is astounding.
This of course is incorrect, because if it were so, one would log flight time every time one did a ground run in a helicopter. Depending on the type, there is normally only a requirement to log engine starts, for cycle counting purposes, in the aircraft technical log, but no flight time, as this has traditionally been from the time the aircraft first moves under its own power
for the purpose of flight . The new rule merely makes it from the time the blades start turning (presumably still, with the intention if flight.
In the last few companies I have worked for, the technical log has two parts, one for block times, to coincide with the time the crew file, and one for actual flight times, used for timing maintenance and component changes.
Many clients are well aware of the difference and some will pay only for actual flight time, rather than block time. Many operators having to use this scheme just revise their hourly contract rates to maintain the same profit level.