Stucdent Pilot PIC Time

"T o d d P a t t i s t" wrote in message
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"Gary Drescher" wrote:

61.51e4 clearly states that a student pilot can log PIC time while
flying solo. What reason did anyone at your flight school give for
doubting
that?

I presume the reason they doubted it was that once a upon a
time a student could not log PIC. The student had to log
"solo" time instead. "Once upon a time" was a long while
ago, but there are still some around who remember those days
(although I'm surprised they wouldn't know it has changed).

I started flying in 1944. I do not recall a time when a student pilot flying
solo was not allowed to log as PIC.????

birdog wrote:


I started flying in 1944. I do not recall a time when a student pilot flying
solo was not allowed to log as PIC.????


They certainly could not log it between 1981 when I started flying in
August of 1997 when the Part 61 rewrite went into effect.