logging Instrument flight time
Can somebody clear this matter up for me. ......
This has been covered on pprune somewhere so if anyone has it please advise otherwise a new reply to this would be of great benefit to myself.
I am used to looging Instrument time as the South African air law says '......Instrument time may be logged whilst sole manipulator of the flight controls with reference to the flight instruments , bla bla...' and as a rule of thumb we would use approximatle 10% of total flight time as optimum. This SACAA is the same of the US system too.
However since I have returned to the UK I have heard things are done here when you are under an IFR flight plan. Have I got this right ? That here in JAA land you can log IFR time so long as you are on a IFR flightplan?
I spoke to a pilot who had 5000hrs and he sais he had 3000hrs of I/f time I couldnt believe it! I thought wow this guy has lived permanent in the clag until he said 'oh no mate thats whilst Im on a IFR flight plan'
I have spent years gaining, scraping IFR time in accordane with other CAA's and now I am here in the UK pilots are logging this without any skill level employed just merely by virtue that one is under IFR regardless if you are in blue skies.
I am now in a flying job flying in airways these days but cannot bring myself to simply put all of my flight time in the IFR column where as previously I would log purely the bit that I hand flew in the clag, and you sure knew when you had done some 'real I/F' flying. If all this is true then must I go back over the years and re adjust my whole log book?!
Many thanks and I hope you can put me right.
DD