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Morally you are wrong.... You are not 'flying' the aircraft until it actually take flight.....
Amazing to hear an examiner say this. The aircraft, for the purpose of determining flight time for the recording of a pilots experience, consideration of fatigue and the application of the minimum equipment list and deferred defect schedule is deemed to be flying when it moves off chocks under its own power for the purpose of becoming airborne.
Not really. Our advice is that we only count the flight time for our maintenance schedule and certainly not chocks to chock.
So we have 3 options
1) Chock to chock with a flight for the personal logbook
2) Take-off to landing for engine/airframe/propellor hours
3) Whatever the group/club charges. For us it is airborne+ 10minutes.