RST Engineering wrote:



If you are under the hood and have a rated pilot acting as a safety pilot,
then all you need is his name..


I'm sure my CFI-I Betty wouldn't appreciate that comment.


Jim



Jim... Instruction is logged with an endorsement by the instructor.
Safety Pilot just requires recording of the name.. (and that means it
can be in anyone's handwriting). Chapter and verse below. I am presuming
you are contesting the signing versus recording of the name, not the
gender issue you also seem to be alluding to.

Dave

61.51.g.3.ii

(3) For the purposes of logging instrument time to meet the recent
instrument experience requirements of §61.57(c) of this part, the
following information must be recorded in the person's logbook—

(i) The location and type of each instrument approach accomplished; and

(ii) The name of the safety pilot, if required.

61.51.H.2.i

(h) Logging training time. (1) A person may log training time when
that person receives training from an authorized instructor in an
aircraft, flight simulator, or flight training device.

(2) The training time must be logged in a logbook and must:

(i) Be endorsed in a legible manner by the authorized instructor; and