Safety pilot "flight time"

Dave Butler wrote:
Jim Macklin wrote:
Second in command time, only a CFI can log PIC when they are not
actually sole manipulator of the controls.

Be honest, you are only required while the hood is on.

You can log PIC, instructor or not, any time you are either acting as
PIC, or the sole manipulator of the controls.
Incorrect.

61.56 is pretty clear. The instructor doesn't need to act as PIC
to log PIC, just to give instruction.

An ATP can log PIC when acting as PIC.

A private or better pilot can log PIC time when acting as PIC
in an operation requiring more than one pilot under the aircraft
certification or under the rules under which the flight was conducted.

Now the latter was probably done with Part 135/121 operations in
mind, but the FAA has affirmed that simulated instrument flight
IS indeed a more-than-one-pilot-required operation.