Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Logging taxi time?

Your interpretation is not the accepted interpretation by anyone who cares about such things.  The FAA could head that list, followed closely by insurance companies, future employers evaluating your experience, etc.  You may as well say, "I want to log more flight time so I'm just going to pencil it in and count it."  Your taxiing for the purpose of future flight idea is just clutching at straws.  If, for example, you needed 10 hours in type to buy insurance and you wanted the insurance NOW, you could go out and taxi for 10 hours and tell the insurance company you had 10 hours because you intend to fly tomorrow.  (Once my insurance is valid.)  If you're going to stretch it that much, may just as well log some landings, too. 

 

Jim

 

 

From: circicirci

Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 4:32 PM

To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Logging taxi time?

 

 

Helen wrote --

Re: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Logging taxi time?


FAR 1.1 Flight Time
(1) Pilot time that commences when an aircraft moves under its own power for the purpose of flight and ends when the aircraft comes to rest after landing.
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A side/footnote complementing Helen`s note above:

Some time ago I was talking to a charter pilot who confirmed that, and mentioned that charter operators sometimes don`t like the fact that their pilots HAVE to log every minute of time that the plane is taxiing, or worse yet, sitting on the ground with engine running for half hour waiting for takeoff clearance, as flight time because there are regulations limiting the number of hours their pilots can fly.

And I suppose, getting back to Roberto`s original question:
I suppose one COULD take it as withing the meaning of taxiing for `purpose of flight` in his case... As in fact ultimately all the taxiing he is talking about doing IS for the purpose of [future] flight. It`s not for any OTHER purpose.
If I were in his situation and felt it to my benefit to have more hours I would feel I was within the letter and spirit of the regs to log that as PIC flight time LOCAL. Experience at the controls is experience at the controls and IMO should be logged. The only odd thing would be in his logbook it would show the number of landings per entry as zero.

Alex

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