Originally Posted by
usmc-sgt
The instructor needs to go with you and be the PIC and you have to be endorsed as acting PIC although you do not actually log PIC. That is what I had to do with most of my multi comm students. You also do not endorse the student as dual given, it is just TT but not PIC for them. This is how the local BOS FSDO explained how they wanted it.
For this very reason I took my multi private checkride first, so that I could log the rest of my training as PIC. Only cost me an an extra $300 for the multi private checkride, but I ended up logging an additional 45 hours of multi PIC while I did my instrument and commercial training.