Ron & Peter are exactly on point in this area. You need to stop
reading between the lines and take the FAR exactly as written. If you
want to BE the PIC, you must qualify as one just as any pilot must.
There is no automatic relief just because you are a required crew
member. Somebody has to qualify as PIC and there can only be one, but
both can LOG PIC, under the very clear regulation.




On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 02:30:52 -0700, "Peter Duniho"
wrote:

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
...
No dice. Policy statements and wishful thinking are not regulations. Show
me
a regulation, please.

You have the regulation in front of you. You quoted part of it. There is
nothing that says that a person acting as safety pilot is acting as PIC.
Furthermore, one must meet very specific requirements in order to act as
PIC, and those include having appropriate endorsements and having a current
medical.

Your post indicates to me that you, for some reason, believe that acting as
safety pilot automatically means you are also acting as PIC. It does not.
The person under the hood may well be acting as PIC, even in visual
conditions. If the safety pilot is not qualified to act as PIC (e.g.
without appropriate endorsements, ratings, or current medical), then the
person under the hood MUST be acting as PIC.

Pete