Originally Posted by mojo6911

You're confusing a lot of subjects here.

1. 135.4 refers to eligible on demand. This is different than on demand. It allows for 80% runway Ops Specs and doing approaches to airports without weather reporting. Even if you have the Ops Specs for eligible on demand, most of your flights will not be used under eligible on demand, because the requirements are kind of a pain in the rear and you only operate under those rules if you absolutely have to. You are right, though. Any flight that is operated under eligible on demand rules will require two pilots. These can be logged by a legitimate SIC.

2. In general, IFR passenger operations require two pilots under Part 135. You can get an Ops Spec which allows single pilot operations on single pilot aircraft, using the autopilot in lieu of the required SIC. It is stupid, but the FAA has ruled (in the letter of interpretation that was posted earlier), that if you have the "autopilot in lieu of SIC" Ops Spec, an SIC is not required unless the autopilot is not used. Therefore, an SIC cannot log any time when the autopilot is working and being used. The only exception is what you posted above, you are flying an "eligible on demand" leg.

Net Jets pilots can log it, because they have a restriction on their certificate "Second in Command Required). For the record, the Chief Counsel's opinion is the only one that matters, not the local POI.



1. If the SIC is required, he can log the flight time when he is acting as a crewmember, as such. 2. If the SIC has a PIC rating and is the sole manipulator of the flight controls, he can log the flight time as PIC. This is in 61.55.