Roy Smith wrote:
: wrote:
: As long as the CFI is IFR current, has received a clearance, and is
: ensuring they fly the clearance, it's perfectly legal. The regs do not
: say which seat one must fly from. Whether or not it can be logged as
: dual is another question that I'm not equipped to answer, but acting as
: PIC is fine.

: Yes, the student can log it as PIC (if they are the "sole manipulator of
: the controls"). What the student cannot do is count it as part of the
: required hours of instrument instruction towards an instrument rating.
: It's PIC time, it's instruction received time, it's instrument time, it
: just doesn't count towards the rating.

I never said otherwise. I wasn't sure if there was anything in the
regulations about when an instructor can say he was giving dual. There probably
isn't... so yes... it's dual, it's instrument, it's PIC, but it's not applicable
dual for an instrument rating.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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