If your log distinguishes between Total Time and Total Flight Time, log the
time as Total Time...but don't mix it in with flight time. As the FAA
Aviation News once said in response to a similar question, "The extension
cord isn't long enough." I have a certain amount of familiarity with this
question, since I operated an AST-300 business across the street from the
Seattle FSDO and had many, many FAA inspectors as customers (on the
taxpayer's dime, of course). I also had a letter from the FSDO laying out
exactly what the AST-300 could be used for...does the box you used have
similar authentication?

Bob Gardner

"Bartscher" wrote in message
...
This is what it is NOT logged as: simulator, ASEL, day, night, actual
instrument, simulated instrument, PIC, total, etc etc etc...

This is what it IS logged as: flight training device AND only if you had
an
instructor with you.

Hilton


I think I'll stand behind my comment about compounding my confusion by
looking
to the internet for answers. To clarify my posting, I did have a qualified
CFII
with me for the sim flight.

If I read FAR 61.51 right, I CAN log as Total Time (see 61.51 b-2-v) I CAN
log
simulated instrument (see 61.51 b-3-iii). Also, 61.51 g-4 looks like it
confirms that simulated instrument can be logged in the sim if as you
said, an
authorized instructor is present.

What is unclear is are the answers to my two original questions:

1) Does the sim time also get logged as ASEL? (61.51 b-1-iv implies to me
that
I would log it as ASEL since the sim was set up as a single engine
aircraft. I
would also log it as a simulator of course.)

2) Do I log anything in the day or night columns? (61.51 b-3 is unclear on
this
because paragraphs i,ii,and iii are not mutually exclusive. Otherwise you
couldn't log both day and instrument.)

I'd appreciate anyone who can reference an FAR or a section of the AIM
that
spells this out more clearly than what I've already found.

Thanks,
Eric Bartsch