Logging PIC time as student instrument pilot in IMC

"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.

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.

-- David Brooks