Sylvain wrote:
Robert M. Gary wrote:

I think you are stretching the FARs a bit. Are you saying you think its
ok to give instruction when there are dual controls but the instructor
can't access them?

yes. That said I don't think it mattered in this case -- the instructor
most probably didn't log (past a few tens of thousands of hours) and
the flight didn't have to be an instruction flight.

91.109
(a) No person may operate a civil aircraft (except a manned free
balloon) that is being used for flight instruction unless that aircraft
has fully functioning dual controls. ...

there is more to it than the intro you just quoted.

Yes, I left out the part about throw over controls (hence the ...).
You're trying to change the subject. The fact is it would be a very
large stretch from the FARs to say a CFII can log dual while sitting in
the back of the plane.

-Robert