Originally Posted by
LAfrequentflyer
How exactly does safety pilot time work?
One pilot flies with the foggles and the other watches for traffic along the way? On the return leg pilots switch roles?
Also. The safety pilot would log a few minutes less time due to pilot flying the first leg would not be able to use foggles to taxi and takeoff. I assume at 300 feet or so the foggles go on...
-LAFF
You are correct. The industry standard is that the SP deducts 0.3 per leg to account for the hood being off for taxi, TO, and LDG. Example:
1.0 Hour Flight
Joe: Pilot (under the hood)
Jack: SP
Joe logs 1.0 TT, 0.7 simulated IFR, the approache(s) and the LDG.
Jack logs 0.7 TT.
To maximize shareable time, you normally fly all approaches to the missed except for the last one, which terminates in a LDG.