Originally Posted by
Belly Flyer
I completely disagree with that statement. What "recruiters" are you talking about? If a PIC so chooses to allow the individual in the right seat to be the sole manipulator of the controls, then the individual can log the time as PIC. This is not uncommon on "deadhead" or non pax legs. Likewise, if the PIC is an MEI, and is willing to sign the other pilot's logbook as dual, he can as well log this time a PIC. To call this "useless" time is incorrect.
Recruiters as in someone that's going to hire you at an airline or a flight department. It doesn't matter what you think about dual given in a king air, it matters what they think. But I guess you are right even under dual given, experience is experience.