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We really are getting into sticky territory. We have to ask ourselves what the author's expectations were when they drafted the requirements for ATPL etc.
If they require 'session time' to be recorded and then state FFS FLIGHT TIME to be counted then where is the column that differentiates between 'session time' and 'flight time'. The latter will ALWAYS be less than the former, sometimes by a lot. Maybe 50/50.
As to the value of sim time I will not dispute your analysis 212. You are absolutely correct but for reasons I can't go into the correct treatment and correct recording of FFS time has become an issue of great import and if it were possible to point to something that was black and white one way or the other then it would help a colleague to understand his personal situation more accurately.
The statement in LASORS (see previous posts) is the clearest and most definite one I have come across, everything else can be interpreted any way you want to see it. LASORS says the FFS time is NOT flight time. CAA document published as a guide to the interpretation of current regulations.
G.