Originally Posted by
SkyHigh
A pilot can log whatever they want however they want. The only crime is if they try to use the experience towards currency or a rating. Employers are different. Some might accept certain situations as PIC while others may not.
A logbook is a personal diary of your flight experience. Put whatever you want in there, but only use flight time that is approved for currency or a rating.
Skyhigh
I don't know of a single employer that would consider
ANYjet time in the right seat logged by a typed FO as PIC time. If I were interviewing and saw someone come in with that I'd have to show them the door. Like you said it's a diary. What does it say about someone that has sleazy numbers? I don't know if it's legal or not if it was at a 121 operator. Their ops specs state exactly who the PIC is, the person who signed the release, and you're operating under those specs. At the bottom of logbooks it usally says "I state the above is true and correct". Logging PIC time when you weren't PIC isn't true and correct. You can be held accountable for what's in your logbooks. I know of a man that spent 3 months in jail because of what was in it. The FAA was already out to get him because he had made a fool of them in the past once so when they took him to court the second time they used his logbook as evidence against him.
I think most employers would look at that as someone trying to cut corners and wouldn't want that type of person as a pilot.