Originally Posted by
bigtime209
Why don't you contact the FAA to get their official stance on this scenario instead of asking on a forum for guys to chime in. For the most part, asking guys that have no idea, myself included, on how the intricacies on this play out. Admittedly, I don't know how all of this part 61 nonsense applies, I'd find it hard to believe that you can anyway claim to pull any type of PIC time while acting as an SIC. But ask an FAA guy with some authority on this if you want an official answer.
For single pilot planes it's legit, logging PIC as PF even when you are SIC is an established practice, and fully endorsed by the FAA. The Nichols letter is the most often quoted reference to this.
The thing is - all of that is only relevant for single pilot airplanes, you cannot be a sole manipulator of controls in a plane requiring two pilots.