Logging Flight Time - EASA vs FAA

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Hi MJ

Thanks for the response.

Having been blessed with operating non JAR / EASA aircraft for a long time it looks like I may have a little more learning to do than I thought.

Your definitions may work well on EASA aircraft, but how do they map across to FAA-land where, for example, there is no tech log? I guess that the answer is "if you have received instruction then it is Dual" but that is dependent on whether you received instruction or not, and not on whether a tech log was signed and if so by whom. I can't see a reference to the tech log in the AMC either.