Originally Posted by
BaronVnLawndart
When you guys do this 'Safety Pilot' thing do you log all of the Hobbs time for the entire flight or just the time the other pilot spends under the hood?
If you buy 50 hours do you really get 50 hours or is it 25 under the hood & 25 safety pilot?
Is it all Cross-Country on IFR flight plans or is the time spent shooting practice approaches & holding?
You normally alternate legs. You log ALL of the leg you are flying, including the LDG. You also log the entire leg as hood time, minus a few tenths to account for taxi, TO, and LDG which are not done under the hood (0.3 is normally used). You also must log the name of the SP for your leg.
The other pilot logs time (but no hood or LDG's) for the exact time that you were under the hood. The SP can log night, XC, ME, or any other applicable flight condition (except IMC).
So if you buy two hours, you each get to log 1.7
1.0 for the leg you flew (including 0.7 hood and the LDG)
0.7 for the other guy's leg.
Note: Don't log actual IMC, cuz you can't have a SP in actual.