Originally Posted by
Bowersbum
That is a terrible article. There is no way that a safety pilot can EVER log SIC. SIC is a completely different reg and with misinformation like that, there is no way you can believe the rest of the article. Safety pilot is PIC, PERIOD! It has absolutely nothing to do with who gets violated or who the two pilots deem the sole manipulator of the controls. If I, an Instrument rated commercial pilot with a CFII, file an IFR flight plan and use a private pilot for a safety pilot to put the foggles on for practice approaches, and bust an altitude, he's gonna log every bit of it as PIC, and I'm gonna put every bit of my certificate in front of the Feds