"Jim Burns" wrote in message
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An instructor does not log flight time.


Of course they do, don't be silly.



He logs instruction given and he logs PIC time. None of my log books have
a
column for "flight time".


PIC time is flight time.



Because it is legal to log PIC time for the time during which flight
instruction is given, he is able to log PIC time even if he never acts as
PIC, and even if the aircraft never leaves the ground, thus, he can log
PIC
time when he isn't flying and he never logs "flight time".


PIC time is not the issue. The fact is that flight instructors are flying
for hire because they're flying and they're being paid while they're doing
it. That may bother you no end but that's the way it is, there's simply no
way around the logic.