Originally Posted by
Waldorf
Who does this? I've only heard of one PIC. When I interviewed at United they were very specific about not logging PIC as a relief Captain, I know you are asking about UPS. If you are an FO serving as a relief FO, I don't know how you would count that as PIC since you aren't a Captain. I think the more important thing about the PIC time is whether you were the Captain signing for the flight and making decisions.
By that logic, you would be the one making the decisions seeing as you are now designated as the PIC since the Captain is on rest and most likely sleeping. The whole point is that you would now be making the decisions so you don't have to go back and ask what they want to do . Furthermore, since you have a type rating in said plane then for that portion of the flight it would stand to reason that you should be able to log that time.
In full disclosure, I don't know what the FARs have to say on this. I'm only wondering if I can log it to boost my PIC from 800 to 1000