Originally Posted by
UCLAbruins
My opinion, and please correct me if I'm wrong, but........ If I'm a required crew member, whether I'm in the left or right seat, FP or NFP, I'm allowed to log everything- night, instrument, inst-approaches, X-country, everything, except PIC (if I'm NOT the one in command). If you are the NFP, you're still part of the flight-crew, monitoring the FP, making your calls, double-checking the approach-plates, not to mention your ass is just as much on the line if you bust an altitude or MDA. You have every right to that instrument time. I'm not an FAR expert, just what I think.
This sounds like "pilot factory" logic, akin to logging CFI time from the back seat. Required crewmember has nothing to do with who logs what. The whole purpose of a logbook is to show
your proficiency, not the proficiency of a crew as a whole.
I can tell you as a fact, when NJA prints out your flight time report, all times are credited to the flying pilot. End of story. If the SIC flies the night IMC leg, the SIC gets ALL the time. The only thing in the Captain's line is "PIC" as the final authority. If it is the Captain's leg he gets ALL the time. Landings, IMC, and approaches are pilot specific. They are not "shared" items.
If NJA records its own pilots times this way, I feel very confident that it is the way they want applicants to present it.