The ratios of time in type and conditions often catch the
liars.

Those bar room tales often start with, " I used to fly for
the CIA, I'd tell you more about it, but then I'd have to
kill you."


One thing you'll likely never see in a pilot's logbook...
Jan3,2009 CE208B stolen at SAT round trip to Mexicalli,
2000 pounds dope, 5 hours X-C 3 hours IMC, no flight plan,
N12345xxx , unless the pilot is really stupid and wants the
turbine for an airline job.


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


"jmk" wrote in message
oups.com...
|
| Crash Lander wrote:
| 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
|
| Possibly, but as others have pointed out, it's hard for
someone to
| significantly falsify their log book and not get caught
eventually - if
| those hours are actually used as a basis for something.
For example, a
| pilot with a few hundred hours in a little Cessna 172
could claim
| thousands of hours in MD-80's and A340's - but as soon as
he applied
| for a job and went into the simulator... well, you get the
idea.
|
| So it does happen (pilots used to talk about logging
"P-51" time; the
| P-51 Mustang being a piston fighter everyone wanted to
fly, but in
| reality referring to only having access to the "Parker
P-51" fountain
| pen to write the entry in the log book G). Rarely does
it happen
| such that you actually wind up with a truly unqualified
pilot at the
| controls of an aircraft because he fudged the hours.
|
| NOW - as to the hours and types of aircraft a pilot may
CLAIM to have
| flown, when he's at the bar and trying to pick up the
sweet young thing
| on the stool next to him... Well, that's another matter
entirely!
| {:) [These tales traditionally start with the words,
"There I
| was..."]
|