Yes, but fraud can get you in legal trouble with the feds
and professional pilots easily recognize phony hours [like
the guy who came looking for a job and claimed 1200 hours
total time and 400 hours actual instrument.] If you have
time listed that doesn't make sense, no body will trust you.



--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

"Crash Lander" wrote in message
...
| I'm surprised. I never knew how it all worked. That leaves
the whole
| 'minimum number of hours required' thing a bit open to
fudging doesn't it?
| Crash Lander
|
| --
| I'm not always right,
| But I'm never wrong!
| "Jose" wrote in message
| m...
| When pilots quote how many hours they have logged, is
this a personal log
| that is kept, or is every hour you fly entered into a
national registry
| and formally kept?
|
| It is a personal log; no national registry is kept. It
is required that
| any flight time that you use towards currency
requirements and ratings be
| logged appropriately. It is not required that all time
be logged, though
| as a matter of practice most pilots probably log it all.
There are rules
| about how the log is kept (for example, the flight
conditions (day/night,
| instrument, simulated instrument), the administrative
conditions ("pilot
| in command, second in command, single engine/multi
engine) and other
| things. It's basically fairly simple, although certain
nuances of the
| rules keep Usenet participants busy posting when they
should be flying.
|
|
| Jose
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music.
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