Originally Posted by
Toonces
It is an interesting quandary. Our POI would disagree, and the document you posted sums it up nicely at the end.
“In summary, the person who is pilot-in-command may log PIC, others may also log PIC depending on the circumstances.”
I did a pretty exhaustive search of the FAA legal interpretations and couldn’t find an exact case that covers this. However, I think you would be hard pressed to find a FSDO that would not allow the PIC designated by a certificate holder to not log PIC if he is not physically manipulating the controls on a company assigned flight. (Apologies for the triple negative)
I read about a case of enforcement action involving two pilots in a King Air 200 and the logging vs acting of PIC, but I couldn’t find the actual document.
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The FAA apparently either moved a ton of LOI's or somehow broke their website so I can't find the ones I read before.
Write the POI then, get a LOI and you can go down in history as the guy who put this debate to bed forever!
At the end of the day it's kind of an unimportant debate because the FAA only really cares about logging towards a rating and once you have 1500 hours you're not getting closer to another rating. The airlines would all certainly count it as PIC. It's kind of a fun thought exercise.