Originally Posted by
Blackhawk
People need to distinguish between personal feelings and legalities.
Instruction given can be legally logged. End of story. Show me a case where the FAA has taken action against someone who properly logged dual given.
I think you need to distinguish between personal feelings and ethics. Admittedly, the boundary between the two is a little fuzzy in places. As I agreed with you in a previous post if Crow and Pearson had filled their logbooks out so that all the legs for which they were both logging PIC at the same time, showed dual given and dual received in both their logbooks, the FAA would not have been able to touch them. That said, it is still falsification, just falsification skillfully enough that it's probably immune from enforcement. Because, lets be serious, they were not giving each other instruction for 200 flights worth, they were double logging time and screwed up how they falsified their logs. The fact that there was a way in which they could have falsified their logs which would have made them safe from FAA enforcement doesn't make their actions ethical. "The FAA can't get me" is a pretty poor bar for "ethical".