logging (PIC) time

"Jack Brown" wrote in message
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Here's a variation on something that's been beaten to death:
Situation - pilot 1's BFR ran out 2 months ago. Friend (Pilot 2)
comes to visit and wants to go flying. It's Pilot 1's airplane (high
wing) and he doesn't feel comfortable letting (low winger) Pilot 2 fly
it so he does. Pilot 2 is "PIC" but Pilot 1 is sole manipulator of
the controls. Who and how is time logged?

Not that this is an opinion on the legalities, but IMHO, Pilot 1 is, at
best, abusing the regulations. If he does not feel comfortable letting
Pilot 2 fly the airplane, he has no business allowing (asking? requiring?)
Pilot 2 to act as pilot in command.

Which is not to say that Pilot 2 must fly the airplane. Just that Pilot 1
should only be bringing a pilot to act as PIC one that he feels is competent
to act as PIC.

As far as the actual logging goes, only Pilot 1 may log the flight, assuming
Pilot 2 is not an instructor. For a run-of-the-mill Private Pilot to log
the time while acting as PIC but not manipulating the controls, there would
need to be some requirement for two pilots, and there is not in this case.

Pete