Recording your flight time

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message ...

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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It scares me to think that there may be aircraft out there with over
2000 TBO which are being sold as less than 1000 TBO.


TBO is based on tach time, not Hobbs time.

Nope, it's based on time in service. You can use any reliable
means of determining the service time as far as the FAA is concerned.
(Not that TBO means anything to most of us).

What "time" are you referring to? Years/months?

Hours in service. While TBO is generally meaningless to us.
Service hours matter for those subject to 100 hour inspections as
well as many AD's that are keyed off hours.

I record tach time for maintenance (oil change, etc) and arm time
(the watch on my arm) for flying time.

I just use tach time. I have a notebook in the plane that I record each
flight in .. along with fuel added. I just enter that same time in my
logbook.
If I end up taxing a lot for takeoff I add a tenth to it. I know I end up
cheating
myself out of logable hours .. but other than showing currency it's not
that important.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:7oiFb.618964$Fm2.558042@attbi_s04...
With built-in flight timers becoming the norm in virtually all new
avionics
(heck, even the new transponder I'm getting has one), just wondering if
folks are migrating away from using hobbs/tach time to record their flight
time?

And if you *are* using the flight timer, have you stopped using the old
archaic "1.3 hours" method of recording flight time? Anyone using actual
hours and minutes in their logbook instead?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Nope. Still using the Mark 1 wris****ch, estimated to within about +/-5
minutes or so, recorded in decimals because I can't add in base 60. Problem
is, I keep forgetting to check my watch on takeoff (there being rather a lot
going on trying to get a Pitts off the ground and into a pattern full of
other aircraft moving at half the speed).

Shawn

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:7oiFb.618964$Fm2.558042@attbi_s04...
With built-in flight timers becoming the norm in virtually all new
avionics
(heck, even the new transponder I'm getting has one), just wondering if
folks are migrating away from using hobbs/tach time to record their flight
time?

And if you *are* using the flight timer, have you stopped using the old
archaic "1.3 hours" method of recording flight time? Anyone using actual
hours and minutes in their logbook instead?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"