Instrument PIC logging for the experts

"Koopas Ly" wrote in message om...

They fly into IMC. The guy in the left seat is still controlling the
airplane, so he still gets to log PIC. Now, since the flight has gone
into IMC, there's no longer a safety pilot requirement. So the guy in
the right seat no longer gets to log PIC, since his presence is now
superflous.

His presence isn't superfluous, it's just ceased to be an opreation requiring
more than one pilot, which is a logging issue only.


Who's ACTING PIC now? The guy who's logging PIC in the left seat does
not have an instrument rating so he can't ACT as PIC...but he's the
one at the controls. Does the guy in the guy in right seat retain the
ACTING PIC title, even though he can't log that PIC time?

Let's forget "acting" shall we. "acting" sounds like pretend. There is always
one and only one pilot in command during any point of a flight. This is the
person who is ultimately responsible, the one IN COMMAND. At all times
while on the IFR plan, your right seat pilot (whether safety pilot or not, whether
manipulating the controls or not), had better be the PILOT IN COMMAND.
He's the only one qualified. Logging is superfluous to this conce.t