Originally Posted by
Atlas Shrugged
Because airlines don't care about that as it is just a technicality. They only care about the real deal. Are you really going to explain, during an interview, that the 1500 hours of 747 PIC time on your resume was while making position reports at cruise?
One of us has to sign the FLT plan when the CA rests, but I don't have any delusions about logging that time. Just keep the coffee pot going!
I really don't have a dog in this fight, but this is an interesting topic nonetheless. Is there any law that prevents the pic from giving command of the aircraft to someone else in flight? If not, and this isn't the acting vs. logging debate, why would it not count as legit PIC time?
If 2 FO's are flying and there's an ATC deviation, who's responsible?
Again, just playing devil's advocate here. I'm just an RJ driver who wouldn't half mind being at atlas...