Chucco
Well-Known Member
I recently started a new CFI job. I'm really enjoying it, and I'm trying to build my multi PIC time so I can finish my MEI.
The other day I thought I saw something that struck me as odd: A chief pilot at my flight school had a multi-engine training flight scheduled with a student. He also needed to do a 141 checkout on another instructor in this same multi-engine aircraft. This other instructor is an MEI with more than 5hrs PIC in the airplane. What he apparently did was have the MEI in need of a checkout sit right seat, student sit left seat, and he sat in the back! When they returned he signed the MEI's logbook for the 141 checkout, and also signed the student's logbook for the lesson they completed.
Is that legal? Can you log dual given from the back seat if there is a competent pilot sitting right seat (who isn't logging dual given or received)? Must I not have correctly seen what happened?
Now my real question is this: Let's say there is a multi-engine training flight scheduled. Can I sit right seat and log PIC as a safetly pilot while the student is under the hood and the instructor is in the back?
Something sounds very odd here, but I can't find an answer in the FARs. 91.109(a) is the closest reg i found but it only specifies that the airplane must have fully functional dual controls...
Any help? (This must be wrong, free multi PIC sounds way too good to be true...)
The other day I thought I saw something that struck me as odd: A chief pilot at my flight school had a multi-engine training flight scheduled with a student. He also needed to do a 141 checkout on another instructor in this same multi-engine aircraft. This other instructor is an MEI with more than 5hrs PIC in the airplane. What he apparently did was have the MEI in need of a checkout sit right seat, student sit left seat, and he sat in the back! When they returned he signed the MEI's logbook for the 141 checkout, and also signed the student's logbook for the lesson they completed.
Is that legal? Can you log dual given from the back seat if there is a competent pilot sitting right seat (who isn't logging dual given or received)? Must I not have correctly seen what happened?
Now my real question is this: Let's say there is a multi-engine training flight scheduled. Can I sit right seat and log PIC as a safetly pilot while the student is under the hood and the instructor is in the back?
Something sounds very odd here, but I can't find an answer in the FARs. 91.109(a) is the closest reg i found but it only specifies that the airplane must have fully functional dual controls...
Any help? (This must be wrong, free multi PIC sounds way too good to be true...)