Letting a PAX fly?

[transpac]

Read FAR 1. Being the PIC has nothing to do with "manipulation". The FAR 1 PIC is not required to ever "manipulate" the controls to log the time.

Read FAR 61.51 and you'll see that CFIse has a point. Being PIC and legally logging PIC flight time are two different issues. Except as noted, the FAR 1 PIC cannot log PIC time unless he/she is the sole manipulator of the controls.

 

[VNugget]

The solution is to only let them fly for 3 minutes at a time, so your time off the controls rounds down to 0.0

 

[CFIse]

Read FAR 1. Being the PIC has nothing to do with "manipulation". The FAR 1 PIC is not required to ever "manipulate" the controls to log the time.

What a shame that's not true. FAR 1 has nothing to do with logging PIC time.

You want to read 61.51 for informaiton on LOGGING time. BEING the PIC doesn't mean you can log the time.