How to get flight hours without instructing?

5 Creative Ways to Build Flight Time
  1. #1: Become a flight instructor. Flight instructing is by far the most common way to build flight time. ...
  2. #2: Volunteer for a charitable cause. ...
  3. #3: Join a flying club. ...
  4. #4: Train for a new endorsement or rating. ...
  5. #5: Fly aerial photographers.




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The pilot can only log solo flight time if they are the only person on board the aircraft. Even if there aren't any other pilots aboard, and you're only carrying passengers who have no idea how to operate an aircraft, you still can't log your flight as a solo.

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It may surprise you to learn that there is no requirement to keep a logbook. The FAA has no such rule. Photo by Mike Fizer. However, student pilots are required to keep a record of their training flights.

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Except for a student pilot performing the duties of pilot in command of an airship requiring more than one pilot flight crewmember, a pilot may log as solo flight time only that flight time when the pilot is the sole occupant of the aircraft.

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In the US, taxi time is included in flight time only if the taxi time was incidental to an intended flight. Taxiing only for the purpose of moving the aircraft on the ground does not count. Otherwise, the FAA does not strongly nor strictly define flight time.

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A student pilot may not act as pilot in command of an aircraft: That is carrying a passenger. That is carrying property for compensation or hire. For compensation or hire.

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(f) No pilot may fly as a member of a crew more than 1,000 hours during any 12-calendar-month period.

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John Edward Long, Jr. (1915–July 18, 1999) was an American pilot who is in the Guinness Book of Records for the most flight time by a pilot: over 65,000 hours (more than seven years and four months) at the time of his death. He began in 1933 at the age of 17, when he took his first and only flying lesson.

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Under FAR 61.51(d)(3), a CFI can always log PIC time when they're serving as the authorized instructor (when rated in the aircraft). Because of this, both you and your instructor are allowed to log PIC time during training flights, even in the clouds.

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It depends on the simulator. If it is an FAA certified simulator, any use in the presence of an instructor or inspector may be logged toward required hours. There are limits and almost every FAA rating requires actual hours in a real flying airplane cockpit.

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