In article ,
"Gary Drescher" wrote:

"Ron Garret" wrote in message
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I think this structuring of the rules is deliberate and not just an
oversight. It would have been easy enough to say that a pilot can log
PIC any time he is acting as PIC, but they apparently went to a lot of
effort not to say that.

In a flight that doesn't require multiple pilots, the FAA does not want two
pilots to log PIC time simultaneously (one as the actual PIC, the other as
the rated sole manipulator). I'd guess that's why they don't just say that
time *as* PIC is *loggable* as PIC time. They probably just didn't think of
the non-pilot-manipulator case when they wrote the regulation.

I think this was a deliberate attempt to
arrange things in such a way that turning over the controls to Aunt
Tillie is not explicitly banned, but that if you choose to do so and
anything goes wrong as a result (even in retrospect) they can nail your
ass to the wall.

It's be just as easy for them to nail you if the time were loggable.

Yeah, you're probably right. I concede the point.

rg