"Maxwell" wrote in
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"Judah" wrote in message
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It doesn't matter what you call the guy in the right seat. For the
purpose of meeting 61.57, the person in the right seat is not necessary
for the conduct of the flight, and therefore doesn't belong there.


It matters if you call him a pilot. How can you consider someone mearly
a passenger, if they are as qualified to fly the aircraft as the pilot.
And if he is indeed a pilot, you are not carrying a passenger, and you
don't have to meet the requirements of 61.57.

Currency to carry a passenger is what 61.57 is all about.

I see where the guy is going with this, and I for one think he might
have a point.

Not to mention the fact that if both people are qualified to solo the
aircraft, why would the FAA care. They are both pilots and they are not
carrying passengers.

Based on Paragraph (2) of 61.57, it doesn't matter whether the other guy is
qualified to solo. If the flight is used to establish currency (ie: you
count the takeoffs and landings toward your 90 day requirement) then it
violates paragraph (2) to have anyone at all in the right seat if you are
PIC.

If you do it with an instructor, that instructor is PIC for the flight.

If you do it with a current pilot, that pilot is PIC for the flight.

If you do it with a dog, you violate.

If you do it with a fat woman named Betty, you violate.

If you do it with a package that you are dropping off at a friends house,
you violate.

The only exception I can see is if you don't log the takeoffs and landings.
However, the wording in 61.57 refers to MAKING takeoffs and landings, not
logging them, so even making a takeoff or landing without logging it might
be a violation.


I see his point, too. But it's written in black and white (well, depends on
the screen colors, anyway).