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By Lerk
#1694180
After just having my IR(R) application rejected by the CAA for the second time I have a query for you all...

Do you log flight time as decimal (a flight from 0900-1015 as 1.25 hours) or Hrs:Mins (same flight as 1:15).

The second rejection was due to the fact that I apparently don't have enough hours logged.
After playing around with the figures in my digital logbook, I've worked out what they've done - they've added up the following flight times:
1
0.9
1
1
1
1.8
1.1
1.25
1.1
1.5
1.5
1
1.1
...and come up with 12hrs 55mins.

Not withstanding the fact that the actual flight times are just to the left of the flight time for them to confirm - surely no-one logs flight times of 1hr 1min?
By Lefty
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#1694186
Well I come up with 15.25 hours.

Question - are you certain that your conversion from hours:minutes to decimal is absolutely accurate?

If yes, then I think they person at the CAA is unable to either add up or use a calculator.

Get your CFI to counter sign your adding up - and re-submit.
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By lobstaboy
#1694195
SteveC wrote:I always used hours and minutes and round up or down to the nearest 5 minutes using standard rounding.


Me too, because it seems easiest.

However, decimal hours are allowed and work well too.

The problem that the OP has caused the person adding it up at the CAA is because of the '1.25' entry. A decimal entry of time must be to the nearest 0.1 hour. So 1.25 isn't allowed and a time of 1hour15minutes should have been entered as 1.3 hours.
Seeing 1.25 has caused the CAA to say "oh, these must be minutes"

HTH
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By PaulB
#1694196
SteveC wrote:I always used hours and minutes and round up or down to the nearest 5 minutes using standard rounding.


We used to do that for the tech log... the trouble was that some members of the group could not add up or take away. This was exacerbated when a group member used the GPS flight times to the minute which made the columns not end in 0 or 5!!
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By GrahamB
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#1694213
What sort of idiot would assume

a) 0.1 is the same as 0.01
or
b) 0.1 is hours/minutes when your job is looking at logbooks where that would be expressed as 0:01

when no one would book a flight if one minute duration anyway?
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By skydriller
FLYER Club Member  FLYER Club Member
#1694230
I would be very amused if your "9minute" flight was between two different airfields 90 odd miles apart... Fastest PA28* in the world? :lol: :lol: :lol:

Regards, SD..

(*insert GA type of choice here.)
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By defcribed
#1694261
My logbook has, after the totals on each page, the text "mins/decimal" with the idea that you cross out whichever you're not using.

When I began my PPL my instructor taught me to use decimal. Looking at it in the round now, I think I'd rather be using minutes. I did contemplate changing when I began a new page in my logbook recently, but decided not to bother as I'd probably mess something up shortly afterwards.
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By Lerk
#1694270
lobstaboy wrote:The problem that the OP has caused the person adding it up at the CAA is because of the '1.25' entry. A decimal entry of time must be to the nearest 0.1 hour. So 1.25 isn't allowed and a time of 1hour15minutes should have been entered as 1.3 hours.
Seeing 1.25 has caused the CAA to say "oh, these must be minutes"

HTH


Oh! I've always used:
00 - 0.0
05 - 0.1
10 - 0.2
15 - 0.25
20 - 0.3
25 - 0.4
30 - 0.5
35 - 0.6
40 - 0.7
45 - 0.75
50 - 0.8
55 - 0.9

Whilst not quite perfect, I could see the logic - what does you conversion chart look like then?
Last edited by Lerk on Sat May 18, 2019 9:09 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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By nickwilcock
#1694277
How many hours of instrument flying did you log?

Was the 15¼ hr to which you refer the total flight time, or the IF time? For the IR(R), the requirement is not less than 15 hr of instrument flying - which obviously does not include taxying, take-off, bad weather visual circuit etc.....