On 12/14/2005 10:25, three-eight-hotel wrote:

Can the safety pilot be PIC even while the left-seat pilot is not under
the hood?

I'm guessing, no, based on:
(g) Logging instrument flight time. (1) A person may log instrument
time only for that flight time when the person operates the aircraft
solely by reference to instruments under actual or simulated instrument
flight conditions.

In simulated conditions, once the hood is removed, it would seem to me
that only one or the other could be PIC at that point???

Well, that was my argument. One way to interpret the regs is that
both would be able to log PIC, although only one could be PIC.


So... I'm beginning to sway to the side of, logging XC as safety pilot
seems to be a stretch!

Also, each pilot needs to decide what is the point of logging such
time. If it is to show that you have the experience necessary to
afford you an advanced rating, you would really want to have that
experience. Personally, I don't think flying as a safety pilot for
another pilot on a x-country flight provides me the same x-country
'experience' as making the flight myself.


Another good argument for getting that instructor rating:
(3) An authorized instructor may log as pilot-in-command time all
flight time while acting as an authorized instructor.



--
Mark Hansen, PP-ASEL, Instrument Airplane
Sacramento, CA