"zatatime" wrote in message
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In a single pilot airplane, the person not flying can act as PIC, but
cannot log PIC for the time he is not manipulating the controls.

It is true that that scenario is possible. It is false that that scenario
is the only one possible.

In a single pilot airplane, it is fine for the person to log PIC even
if he is not current, as long as there is someone current on board
acting as PIC.

True. It is also fine for the person to log PIC even if he is not current,
even if there is NOT someone current on board acting as PIC. Nothing about
the regulation requires the flight to be legal in order to log the flight as
PIC.

The non-current pilot logging the PIC time cannot use this for
currency requirements because he was not acting as PIC.

False. Logged PIC time is logged PIC time, and it is just as useful whether
or not the logging pilot was acting as PIC.

The idiosyncrasies between logging and acting as PIC are more complex
than needed for single crew member aircraft.

Possibly.

If all of the above are true I understand your statements, and the
concepts even though I still find it bizarre.

Yes, there are some non-intuitive conclusions the regulations create.
That's why I wrote "classic mistake". Don't use your intuition to try to
understand the FARs.

Pete