David Brooks wrote:
"Snowbird" wrote in message
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FWIW, this is how my actual time is logged: as PIC. My husband,
or my CFI, who acted as PIC, also logged PIC time.

Well, I've often wondered about that one. From everyone's second-favorite
FAR:
A ... pilot may log pilot-in-command time only for that flight time during
which that person (is sole manip, sole occupant, or) ...is acting as pilot
in command of an aircraft on which more than one pilot is required under ...
the regulations under which the flight is conducted.

Correct.

The regs have to *require* more than one pilot. Usually an ASEL flown under
IFR does not require more than one pilot by regulation. So it would seem not
to count.

However, if you are saying "given that this is a flight under IFR where the
controls are manipulated by a non-IR pilot, then the regulations do require
two pilots: the PF and the PNF/PIC", then they can log it.

Yes, exactly. That appears to be the General Counsel interpretation --
Andrew Sarangan had a General Counsel letter on his website relevant to
the topic. Ron Rosenfeld referred to one. I have an email
correspondence with John Lynch of a few years back where he initially
disagreed, then consulted the GC office and came back concurring.

That's why we felt it was appropriate to log it as we did (why we
chose to log it that way is a seperate issue)

Cheers,
Sydney