I'm currently training for my instrument rating and would like to have a safety pilot to practice shooting some solo approaches. I'd also like to serve as a safety pilot myself for another pilot.
But, I read an article about safety pilots on Wikipedia, which says the safety pilot cannot log PIC time, only SIC time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_pilot (see the last paragraph under "Basic Principles")
...is this true? I've learned to take everything on Wikipedia with a grain of salt and this particular article may have been written by some commercial pilot who didn't know what the heck he was talking about.
I also was told by a CFI that airlines deduct SIC time during the pilot hiring process, which (if true) makes it a waste of time to serve as anybody's safety pilot, doesn't it?
2007-04-12
06:55:40
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