Agaricus Bisporus/Any First Officers.
AB - If you were an F/O by company appointment and flying as the F/O on a multi-crew aircraft would you log the sector you were given as 'P1' under the 'Holders Operating Capacity' or as P1u/s ? Who's name do you put in the 'Commander' column, (CAA log-book format), or would you leave it blank?
The Instructions given in GID44 seem pretty clear for a UK licence holder, if you are the nominated Commander, by your company, (you have completed their command course, been checked out, are current in the LHS and sign all the paper work), you may log P1, anything else is either P2 or P1u/s and there is no change after you have obtained your ATPL to the P2, P1u/s status until you get your command, P1u/s is not just for higher licence issue.
A word of caution to all First Officers, if you are planning on changing employers you should remember that no one likes a log-book cheat and as a pilot you are expected to be able to interpret such documents as GID44, to most employers Command time is time spent as an appointed captain, not time under supervision of another captain whilst you are a First Officer.
(Obviously single crew counts as command time!).
Again, most employers won't waste much time on a person if they think his log book is inaccurate, regardless of how good he is.
Last edited by BlueEagle; 13th June 2002 at 01:14.