Originally Posted by
Ray Blaszak
Yes. If you look under the requirements to obtain a commercial pilot multi license you need to have so much PIC time. You were technically logging "supervised PIC" time. The solo endorsement was to take the check ride with the examiner as you were not yet rated in the airplane.
This is not correct. Dual and supervised PIC can not be logged at the same time. Once you get the PIC endorsement for an aircraft your not rated you can log PIC while solo or while meeting the solo requirements while being supervised. It doesn't work for dual instruction. If your CFI gave you a solo endorsement you technically weren't legal to fly solo or act as PIC because its the wrong endorsement. The solo endorsement is only for a student pilot. Once you become a certificated pilot you have to have a PIC endoresement for aircraft your not rated to fly while doing the training to fly it solo or for the checkride.
I would bet that if the training was not endorsed or logged properly the DPE just didn't catch it.