Originally Posted by
friendlyskies
You do bring up another good point about the PIC time. I'm working for a 135 company flying BE-10s and the autopilots have been disengaged, so I always log SIC, but now it seems to make sense that I could log PIC on my legs too. I pretty much HAVE to, because in order to get the ATP, I need 100(?) PIC cross country, and I don't have that unless I go rent a plane or instruct. Or just log the 135 legs as PIC. I've been keeping a separate column in the logbook "BE-10 Sole Manipulator" so I can easily just add that to my true PIC time. I'll definitely contact my POI about it.
Exactly right, you can log the time (sole manipulator of controls while serving as SIC) as PIC for the purposes of obtaining a rating (ATP), but not for the purposes of satisfying SERVED as PIC requirements needed under pt. 135. And most airlines won't accept this as PIC time. Logging it under two columns probably isn't a horrible idea.
Clear as mud? I hate all this confusion between logging and acting. You really need to know how to work the system.