Originally Posted by
Oblique
If I am flying with my dad whom is a private pilot acting as PIC in a 172, can I sit right seat and log total time? I have my commercial ASEL, so I don't see why I couldn't log it. It doesn't seem like the best way to log time to me because I wouldn't really be doing anything. Do airlines look down on this?
Don't log it. Total time doesn't mean "airplane ride", it means any time you are acting as an FAA-required crewmember. The only time a non-flying pilot should log 172 time is when he is:
1) A CFI giving dual.
2) A safety pilot who is rated in the airplane, and the flight is conducted so as to make safety pilot time legal (see other recent threads on this subject).
The airlines would consider this a misrepresentation (translation: you would never get hired).