Originally Posted by
Gary et al
You are making this way bigger than it needs to be.
But it IS actually that big, and I didn't make it so. 61.51 has been around a lot longer than this conversation, and due to employers' wanting PIC defined another way, there are multiple definitions of PIC out there (so "PIC is PIC" is not true) and that needs to be dealt with. And the way to deal with it is not to pretend that the reg definition doesn't exist. And to expect from everybody to magically know to also pretend that way, is an unreasonable expectation. From day one as student pilots, we're taught to follow the regs, and follow the manuals, and follow the SOP's, and follow the opspecs, etc.; and now suddenly this, without warning? To me, the attitude that simply logging how the reg says to log is "dishonest," is bizarre.