midlifeflyer
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You're right. It was thread creep.nosehair said:
The regulation itself only says two things:
1. An examiner is not PIC for the flight unless he specifically agrees do so.
2. Not being rated in category or class does not preclude a pilot from carrying passengers (namely the Examiner) during the checkride.
The'yre really to sides to the same coin, and the "applicant as PIC" more or less a necessary result. =Someone= has to be acting as PIC. If it's not the Examiner, it's got to be the applicant. All the second part of the rule really does is authorize a pilot who is only permitted to act as PIC in solo flight to carry a passenger. But that doesn't give the applicant the authority to do something otherwise prohibited by the regulations, like act as PIC on an IFR flight plan or in IMC.
