ron@BRL.ARPA (Ron Natalie) (03/09/86)
At the local flight seminar, we had some guy who was supposedly an expert at reading regulations look very closely at the punctuation in the government regulations. What was decided by our group was: A safety pilot is a cremmember required by the regulations. and hence when you are acting as safety pilot you log PIC time. You are hence not a passenger, you are not second in command, flying under the hood requires two pilots in command. How you maintain your log book is a matter of taste. All that really matters is that when you start filling out the application with all the little boxes for your check ride that you can easily provide the times in the breakdowns that the from requires. -Ron
marcum@sun.uucp (Alan Marcum) (03/18/86)
> What was decided by our group was: > A safety pilot is a cremmember required by the regulations. > and hence when you are acting as safety pilot you log PIC > time. You are hence not a passenger, you are not second in > command, flying under the hood requires two pilots in command. According to this interpretation, the co-pilot and the flight engineer should be loggin PIC time, because the regulations state they are required crew members. From my understanding of things, this is not the case: they log something other than PIC time, beacuse they are NOT pilot-in-command. Am I incorrect? I'd be VERY leary about logging PIC time for safety-pilot time. Personally, I log it as SIC time, note who the hooded pilot was. -- Alan M. Marcum Sun Microsystems, Technical Consulting ...!{dual,ihnp4}!sun!nescorna!marcum Mountain View, California