bart@ucbvax.UUCP (06/19/83)
I miss-typed: As I said, any dual time you take in an aircraft which you are qualified to fly is considered PIC, but (as was pointed out), CFI's log that time as "Flight instruction" time. It is a gray area on the safety pilot issue, as to what qualifications are needed. True, the best situation is that the safety pilot is fully qualified in the aircraft. But asking 3 different aviation specialty lawyers (slippery folks that those lawyers are), I received 3 different answers. It is an area the FAA has not clarified, because of the relative lack of problems resulting from simulated instrument time flights. Another question for the net: how many of pilots out there are suffering from restrictions and pressures on their home airports, caused by the neighboring communities? Not to be ignored, how many of you have communities that are supportive of their airport? --bart miller