Let a friend fly the plane. Legal?

As I understand it, the person ACTING as Pilot In Command may always log the
time (as total time and PIC time), whether that person is sole manipulator
of the flight controls or not.

I have not seen where this is so. I have seen that one may log as PIC
time ONLY that time in which... one is acting as PIC in a situation
where MORE THAN ONE PILOT IS NEEDED. I've seen posted here a letter
from the FAA which appears to attempt to indicate that any time where
one is acting as PIC is loggable as PIC, but the logic in the letter
does not in fact succeed to indicate that.

Nonetheless, I count organic autopilots as flight controls, and log the
time.

Jose
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