Originally Posted by
mr.piloot
We are logging time by means off the hobbs timer in my FTO.
The hobbs timer start counting from engine start till engine stop ( detects oil pressure), engine start is maybe 1 or 2 min before we start taxi, so ist kind like block hours.
The hobbs timers works in ticks of 6 min, sometimes 10 sec after engine start it does the first tick and i have 6 min "flown" on the other hand, some times you can be 5 min and 50 sec in the "tick" at engine stop ant dont have the full 6 min's , so the 5min 50 sec will not be logged in the book.
In avarage this will cancel each other more or less. Sometimes i have 6 min " extra" sometimes not
Let's call that what it is. Fraud.
This FTO is encouraging its pilots to fraudulently log hours (or at-least minutes) to which they were not entitled.
Unless checks are incredibly gash, most flights include at-least 5 minutes of engine running time before, then after, the flight (particularly if you include a minute or so shutting everything down after turning the engine off when there's still power and oil pressure). So basically this is artificially adding 5 minutes (or whatever the figure is) to the legitimate time per flight.
Over a typical PPL course, that's 4 hours being logged to which the student wasn't entitled.
Fraud, and no amount of dressing it up or using thumbs-up smileys changes that.
Charging by Hobbs is perfectly legitimate. Logging by Hobbs almost never is.