Safety Pilot Question

[Steve]

Posted this in the FAR board but was hoping I would get some more info from people who have "been there, done that"

I'm not current in single engine aircraft. Can I act as safety pilot and log PIC without having 3 landings in the last 90 days? Looks to me like i cant.

 

[mynameisjim]

The rule is for acting as pilot in command. There is no requirement that a safety pilot be the pilot in command, although most people like to be so they may log the time as PIC. As long as the pilot under the hood is properly qualified, he may be the pilot in command, you may be the second in command, everybody is happy, and you log it as SIC.

Or...you can use the 'persons required for the conduct of the flight' clause, because you are both required for the flight under the hood. You can log PIC as long as you can explain that you were both required for the flight.

Sound good?

 

[LarryinTN]

Or...you can use the 'persons required for the conduct of the flight' clause, because you are both required for the flight under the hood. You can log PIC as long as you can explain that you were both required for the flight.

That requires that the safety pilot ACT as PIC. If you are not current you can not ACT as PIC so a safety pilot in that situation could only log SIC.

 

[PaulThomas]

or you could both get in the plane, have him act as PIC, do your 3 landings and then let him do his thing while you watch for traffic and act as PIC

 

[JimNtexas]

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Or...you can use the 'persons required for the conduct of the flight' clause, because you are both required for the flight under the hood. You can log PIC as long as you can explain that you were both required for the flight.

Sound good?

So if an airliner requires two pilots, both can log PIC because both are required?

 

[PaulThomas]

How many people can be in charge at the same time?
That's what SIC is for.

 

[mynameisjim]

What i mean by the 'persons required for flight' is that there are no passengers, so he can be PIC without the landings. Landings are only for passengers.

As for the airliner thing, if the FO is typed, yes. The captain is PIC because he signed for the plane, and the FO can log PIC because he can be sole manipulator of an aircraft he is qualified on. most FOs aren't typed however.