Originally Posted by
T45Heinous
I find it a little odd you asking this question...I assume you must be fairly junior, but then again if you are a qualified a/c commander you can't be that junior....so how do you not know the process of who should sign for the plane and who the a/c commander is??? The answer is always how it was scheduled...(unless of course they made some sort of mistake). If you are written on the sked as the PIC and are qualified as such, you are the PIC, even if you have an O-6 sitting next to you and you are wearing LTJG.
I'm not trying to be rude, but if it comes off that way I appologize, but I am scratching my head on this one....
He may only have experience flying single seat aircraft where that rule is never used. I myself flew several tours flying single seat aircraft the only time I was in something with two seats was when receiving instruction and in that case the instructor was the AC.
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