Thread: CO-Pilot time
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Old 03-23-2011, 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Duksrule View Post
I am not in the airlines so forgive me if this is a dumb question.

When a First Officer flies the plane even though the Captain signed for it he logs PIC because he is the person at the controls right?

With that being said and knowing people are at the regionals most of the time to build time and move on, do you run into a Captain that hogs all the PIC often? Or is it pretty standard to swap back and forth?
The Captain is the overall PIC even if you are the "sole manipulator of the flight controls." When it comes to currency you can only log actual time, take-off's, landings, and approaches if you are flying that particular leg.

-- At least that's the way I interpret the regulations --
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