Can you act as PIC at night if you're not night current?

Negative and there are numerous threads on this instance.

Because in order to log PIC under your scenario you must also be Acting PIC because of the whole required crew member deal.

To Act as PIC you need those endorsements.

However you could log it as SIC
Correct. You can log PIC in a complex without an endorsement, but only as sole manipulator. If you ain't qualified to actually be PIC, then you can't log PIC as a safety pilot.
 
Just fly the 3 laps in the pattern which should be about .4, and eliminate the question all together.
 
Negative and there are numerous threads on this instance.

Because in order to log PIC under your scenario you must also be Acting PIC because of the whole required crew member deal.

To Act as PIC you need those endorsements.

However you could log it as SIC

Can anyone else confirm? I need to figure out whether to log it or not.

EDIT - it's not an airplane that requires 2 pilots, if that changes anything...
 
Can anyone else confirm? I need to figure out whether to log it or not.
Hopefully MidlifeFlyer will come back and provide all the excruciating details, but you can log time in an aircraft for which you are not qualified to act as PIC if you are rated in the aircraft. For example, if you hold a private pilot certificate with an airplane single-engine land rating, but you do not have a high performance endorsement, you can still log the time in a Cessna 182 as PIC time while you are the sole manipulator of the controls. Endorsements limit your authority to act as PIC, they do not limit your logging of PIC.
 
EDIT - it's not an airplane that requires 2 pilots, if that changes anything...
Doesn't matter. The operation requires two pilots. Go read 61.51 again. Pay particular attention to (f)(2) where it says or the regulations under which the flight is being conducted. The regulations require a safety pilot while the pilot flying is under the hood so SIC is fair game for the right seater because he or she is required by the regulations under which the flight is being conducted.
 
Hopefully MidlifeFlyer will come back and provide all the excruciating details, but you can log time in an aircraft for which you are not qualified to act as PIC if you are rated in the aircraft. For example, if you hold a private pilot certificate with an airplane single-engine land rating, but you do not have a high performance endorsement, you can still log the time in a Cessna 182 as PIC time while you are the sole manipulator of the controls. Endorsements limit your authority to act as PIC, they do not limit your logging of PIC.
No need for excruciating details from me. You got it.

Edit: aloft (below) is also correct. Talking about the sole manipulator rule (where you don't need to be PIC to log PIC) in the context of the how the safety pilot may log (where you do need to be PIC to log PIC) is probably unnecessarily confusing.
 
Hopefully MidlifeFlyer will come back and provide all the excruciating details, but you can log time in an aircraft for which you are not qualified to act as PIC if you are rated in the aircraft. For example, if you hold a private pilot certificate with an airplane single-engine land rating, but you do not have a high performance endorsement, you can still log the time in a Cessna 182 as PIC time while you are the sole manipulator of the controls. Endorsements limit your authority to act as PIC, they do not limit your logging of PIC.
Since SJM seemed to be talking about flying as safety pilot, this response only muddies the waters.

The only way for a safety pilot to log PIC is for the two pilots to agree before the flight that he/she is the acting PIC for the flight--which a pilot without the required endorsements cannot do. The guy under the hood can log it as PIC regardless, per the sole manipulator rule. But if the safety pilot lacks the endorsements necessary to act as PIC, he/she may only log the time as SIC.

But really, who gives a crap whether the time is PIC or SIC? It all goes in the total time column.
 
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