Originally Posted by MatchPoint

Now that’s funny, talking to a Compass FO was the first place I encountered this issue. He has never been a Captain but logs PIC on the legs he fly’s. This individual also believed that Delta strongly prefers pilots with "slat and engine under wing time" and asked me if I planned to leave my Captain seat on the RJ at SkyWest for Compass so I could build that necessary time. What a fool and I told him that to his face!

There are pilots who, because the regs say you can, will log PIC time when they are "sole manipulator."