Originally Posted by
JohnBurke
You want to log it as SIC but claim it to an examiner as PIC?
What does the regulation say? Read it?
Logging your experience as SIC while claiming it's actually PIC is ridiculous.
If you're going to claim it as PIC, then log it that way.
The notion of making multiple columns in the logbook to show "acting PIC" vs. "logging PIC" is also ridiculous.
You could wait until you'e qualified and assigned as PIC to begin logging PIC at your 135 operation. If you're in too big of a hurry and must absolutely run before you can walk, then log it as PIC while you're sole manipulator, go do your ATP, and race to the nearest regional in order to satiate that shiny jet syndrome.
Logging as SIC and telling an examiner that it's really PIC...no.
Practically the only aircraft being manufactured today are shiny jets, most available work is in transport category aircraft. I basically have no way to get my ATP without going to the regionals (unless I wanna shell out 8K more, no thanks). My company doesn't upgrade till 2000hrs , so I'm kinda in a bind. You even said it, the airline training departments may not look favorably but it's legal (lots of guys moving on from seaport, tradewind, boutique, mokulele, capeair etc). If I need to audit the book later to subtract SIC time for the ride, I will have all the information to make that simple, for now I'm segregating the kinds of PIC because in the future I'll want to calculate TPIC without the PIC time I used to meet ATP mins.