On Mar 9, 4:35 pm, Judah wrote:
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.


This is absolute non-sense. 61.57 (2) just allows a pilot who cannot
comply with 61.57 (1) to do a legal flight in order to regain
currency, in aircraft certified for more than one pilot (because if
you don't need more than one pilot then 61.57 allows you to do the
flight).
What you are saying implies that I can't count any flights I do with
passengers for currency purposes, which doesn't make any sense either.
And saying that a flight can be legal or not legal depending on the
fact that you log or not log the landings is non-sense as well.
You have completely misinterpreted 61.57 (2)