Other time and your airline Total

Air Force flight records split a pilot's time into primary, secondary, instructor, evaluator and other. The first four describe your role on the flight. Other covers the flight time logged outside them.

Your military total counts Other. The major airlines don't: American, Delta, Southwest and United all tell applicants to report Total without it. Carry your military total straight onto an application and it can come out higher than the number the airline asked for.

What ProvenFlight does with it

Exclude Other time from civilian Total is on by default. The airline worksheets always leave Other out, and this setting does the same for the civilian view of your logbook, the ledger PDF and your other exports. Other stays visible beside Total, and your military record never changes.

There's one exception. If you count Other as PIC on flights logged PIC = Yes (a separate setting, off by default), that time stays in Total, because you've claimed it as PIC.

What leaves with it

Taking Other out lowers Total, and the columns that depend on Total follow it:

• PIC, then SIC, are capped to the reduced Total, so time that overlapped Other can't slip back in.
• Night, instrument and instruction are capped the same way. Night flown during Other time leaves with it.

That's why your civilian night total can come out below your military one. Nothing was lost. It's still in your military record, outside the civilian Total.

Check it before you apply

Click Total in the civilian view to see the Other line and the flights behind it (the breakdown guide shows how). The ledger's totals bridge itemizes it too, so you can walk a reviewer from your military total to the airline number one line at a time.

Want your civilian Total to match your military records total instead? Turn the setting off. The airline worksheets still leave Other out, and the live instructions for the airline you're applying to always win.