Originally Posted by
tangoindia
So are you telling me that all those twin otters fron scenic airlines and all those vans from pacific wings, new mexico and the other one i cant remember that flies out of KATL are not equipped with autopilots?
That's the issue at hand. Cape FOs log time even on clear VFR days without an IFR flightplan on file. As far as I'm aware, an SIC is only needed in a 135 passenger environment in a single-pilot airplane if:
1) The CA is on high mins (first 100 hours of PIC) under IFR.
2) The autopilot is inoperative under IFR.
Now, I could definitely see FOs logging sole-manipulator PIC, but I'm not sure how legal that is when an ATP is required to be PIC on a 135 leg. I'm going through the ops specs and I'm not finding much beyond just the rules laid out in 135.101 and .105. I know Cape's been doing this for years though, so I know there has to be a legal way to do it. Just not sure what it looks like in a logbook.
