The way you record flight time for the purposes of your logbook is with a watch.
You note the time 'off chocks', the time 'airborne', the 'landing' time and the time 'on chocks'. It has always been so. I cannot understand this confusion - where are the instructors who taught these pilots and why was that not made clear? The manner in which logbooks should be completed is shown in the preface pages of most commercially available Pilot Logbooks, in addition to official sources mentioned previously.
Aircraft, as opposed to pilot, logbooks (tech logs) may require take-off and landing times with an agreed addition for taxying. They may be based on Hobbs Meter time. But this has no relevance whatsoever when discussing pilot flying time, albeit that they could, of course, be the same times - especially when recording time to the nearest 5 minutes which is standard practice! The method of billing, again is of no relevance.
I just don't understand why no-one has explained all of the above to the pilots in question at some stage during their training, or afterwards?!
AJ
Last edited by AJMortimer; 18th Jan 2009 at 16:11.