Originally Posted by
awax
I'll continue to disagree, two pilots may not simultaneously log PIC when one pilot is sole manipulator of the controls and the other is acting as pilot-in-command if the regulations governing the flight do not require more than one pilot, which is the case here.
I agree that two people cannot log PIC at the same time in this scenario when there is not a CFI involved. Only the sole manipulator can log it. The actual PIC can NOT log it because it does not fit into the categories that 61.51(e) allows.
Like it or not, that is the way the regs are written.