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Old December 5th 03, 01:05 AM
Robert Moore
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Fair enough, but it's still loggable as PIC time, no?
Just can't count towards the recency or currency.


No simulator time counts as PIC. Doesn't matter if is a real
"airplane simulator", an "airplane flight training device", or
a "personal computer aviation training device", it's still not
"pilot experience", just "training time".

Note in the following excerpts from FAR 81.51 (Pilot Logbooks),
the distinction made between actually flying and training in a
simulator.
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Section 61.51: Pilot logbooks.

(ii) Total flight time or lesson time.
(iii) Location where the aircraft departed and arrived, or for
lessons in a flight simulator or flight training device,
the location where the lesson occurred.

(2) Type of pilot experience or training

(v) Training received in a flight simulator or flight training
device from an authorized instructor

(iii) Simulated instrument conditions in flight, a flight
simulator, or a flight training device

(e) Logging pilot-in-command flight time. (1) A recreational,
private, or commercial pilot may log pilot-in- command
time only for that flight time during which that person --

(i) Is the sole manipulator of the controls of an aircraft for
which the pilot is rated.
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