Originally Posted by
LJ Driver
a) How is the PIC exerting his responsibility and authority as to the final operation of the airplane from a place other than a pilots seat?
b) During an in flight emergency requiring immediate action, how is the PIC executing that action and then actually the person deviating from any of these rules if he isn't in the seat?
c) How is the PIC that somehow deviates from these said rules going to word the writeup of that deviation as he is not in the seat when the deviation occurs?
Does the A-Code in your scenario need to be in the seat during takeoff and landing? If yes then why? What about other critical phases of flight, like airdrop, AAR, low-level, formation? Is it ok for him to be logging other time then also?
Seems shady to me. I'm personally not interested in trying to explain the logic of logging other time as PIC time to Capt X during an airline interview. Glad it worked out for you, I wouldn't offer that as sage advice to anyone else.
As to point A, I’ve called many a Go Around from a jump seat as the A-code, an IP on a flight with qualified ACs in the seat on a training line. A-code isn’t required in the seat during critical phase, just a qualified crew compliment.
Point B, qualified FO in the right seat, AC candidate in the left. They ran through the whole emergency (No slat iirc) and came up with a plan to burn off gas and land. I then chimed in and told them to land, we had the landing data and I didn’t feel like doing laps over Bahgram at 13.5k for the next 2 hours while the sun came up and we became target practice.
Point C, I’d word it exactly how it happened and why the deviant was required. As to above, normally an o erweight landing wouldn’t be the safest decision but with an 11k runway and a bunch of soon to be awake (due to our buzzing their house for the next hour) angry locals with guns, the prudent course of action was to land.
Just because you aren’t doing the stick and rudder doesn’t mean you still aren’t in charge on the airplane. Are you trying to say you can’t log PIC when the autopilot is on?