"tjd" wrote in message
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What about the private checkride? I found some old threads on this
group but I'd call them inconclusive. 61.47 is clear that the examiner
is not (normally) the PIC and is "not subject to the requirements or
limitations for the carriage of passengers that are specified in this
chapter." So how does that interact with 61.51e4? If the student
can't log it, does no-one log the PIC time?

Someone (probably my instructor) told me to log ny checkride as PIC, so
I did - now I'm wondering if I should change it.

You're right that the regs are vague on that point. But it seems to be
accepted practice to log the time as PIC time. Apparently 61.47c is
construed to include an exemption from the sole-occupant provision of
61.51e4 (though that exemption is by no means clear from the wording
itself).

--Gary