"Robert Moore" wrote in message
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How did he meet the FAA requirement of "rated in type" in order
to log the time as "pilot flight time"? Rated-in-type is a
requirement for all aircraft over 12'500# and jet aircraft.

I'll ask him when I get a chance. I know he never attempted to apply those
hours, so they never received FAA scrutiny. Maybe, he was uninformed and it
was a useless effort. It did help him pass the time while hitching patrol
rides to keep his flight pay.

Please educate me in a number of areas.

There are a number of questions which the FAA has not answered consistently
over the last thirty years. With regards to Naval Aviators, the FAA has
allowed Navy pilots, with proper documentation, to apply hours acquired when
the pilot didn't have a license of any sort. In these cases, even the PIC
wasn't rated in-type at the time he collected and logged his military hours.

That said, are military aircraft type-rated? That would answer a number of
questions.

The question of co-pilot time (SIC) is even more confusing. The FAA uses
aircraft certification to determine if co-pilot time can be logged. If the
certified aircraft requires two pilots, SIC time can be logged. If the
certified aircraft does not require two pilots, PIC time can be traded back
and forth, but no SIC time can be logged. If type-rating is required, these
hours can't be logged.

An interesting case is the S-3. For a number of years, NFO's logged SIC
time, privately. A number of these NFO got the FAA and airlines to accept
the time. In 1988, NAVAIR started requiring that this time be kept
formally.

Which leads to the next question, does SIC time have to be logged while
rated-in-type?