Originally Posted by
JamesNoBrakes
Well, here's one example, but I wouldn't necessarily use the date as "that's when it changed", it's just the quickest one I could find. You'd have to go back through legal counsel's interpretations and see if there's an earlier version that says the same thing:
http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/...2/Trussell.pdf
Anyway, I used to think the same as you, it surprised me.
This really didn't change anything. All the safety pilot has to do to log PIC is assume the role of "acting" PIC and log as such. Then the person under the hood can log it as PIC since they are the ones on the controls. If thats not acceptable then the FAA needs to clear that up too. Most of the large flight academies programs are still putting out pilots with lots of this type of time and still are to this day. Plus they are still selling "time building" packages too. So...