Originally Posted by Redbaron63

I am doing my Multi Comm as the initial commercial, and then I hope to transition to the MEI. I was told that that the X-country flights will be logged as "performing the duties of PIC"

Does "performing the duties of PIC" time count towards the 15 hours of actual PIC time needed as a prerequisite for the MEI?

If not, I wonder if I am better off getting the Multi-pravate first and then multi comm., as this would give me more real PIC time. It can be done in a weekend. I didn't want to waste the money on a PPV mult checkride, but I hate to pass up all of that PIC time since I will need it for MEI.

Thanks