MBDiagMan
En-Route
The title is the question. If the flight is over 50 nM, and you land at an airport that far away, is it cross country time for the safety pilot? Does he have to land and take off?
From the 91.109 safety pilot rule:The safety pilot has one responsibility: traffic avoidance. No navigation, no communication, no use of the flight controls. Does that answer your question? Unless the requirements of 61.55 are met, the safety pilot is not even SIC.
Bob Gardner
Just reading what it says. Nothing special.Never argue with a lawyer. I defer to your greater knowledge.
Bob
When I fly under the hood, I brief the safety pilot to take the controls (and say so) if he or she sees a hazard and is not sure that it will be possible to advise me of it in time for me to avoid it.From the 91.109 safety pilot rule:
So why would a rule about someone who is nothing more than a lookout include access to flight control requirements and safety of flight determination if it is not there?Except in the case of lighter-than-air aircraft, that aircraft is equipped with fully functioning dual controls. However, simulated instrument flight may be conducted in a single-engine airplane, equipped with a single, functioning, throwover control wheel, in place of fixed, dual controls of the elevator and ailerons, when ... The safety pilot has determined that the flight can be conducted safely;
As a required crewmember, a safety pilot does have safety of flight responsibilities. And since the safety pilot can be (not just log) PIC, he might be picking up primary flight responsibility as well.
The cross country "entire flight" requirement is not about flight duties and responsibilities. It is, like most logging rules, a policy decision about what counts toward later certificates, ratings, and privileges. That series of interpretations does not deal exclusively with safety pilots but with pilots doing the flying too.
How about less than 50 miles? Still legal cross country.How about this scenario? Pilot L and pilot R agree prior to the flight that pilot R will be PIC. Pilot R performs the take-off and at some point pilot L puts on the foggles and becomes sole manipulator of the controls. They then fly to an airport >51nm away from where they took off where pilot L removes the foggles and performs a landing.
Who can log the XC?
Yes. That's correct. If the pilot under the hood is acting as PIC, the safety pilot may log SIC. It was beaten to death in 1993.I never log safety pilot time at all. However, I thought this horse was beaten to death either on here or somewhere else, and the result was that a safety pilot is a required crewmember and therefore can log SIC time, but only for the time when the PIC is under the hood.
(I realize the XC issue was already answered, I was just referring to logging the time as SIC)
Are you asking for a real answer? Its no mystery. The answer is in the series of Chief Counsel letters I mentioned earlier. Neither.How about this scenario? Pilot L and pilot R agree prior to the flight that pilot R will be PIC. Pilot R performs the take-off and at some point pilot L puts on the foggles and becomes sole manipulator of the controls. They then fly to an airport >51nm away from where they took off where pilot L removes the foggles and performs a landing.
Who can log the XC?
How about this scenario? Pilot L and pilot R agree prior to the flight that pilot R will be PIC. Pilot R performs the take-off and at some point pilot L puts on the foggles and becomes sole manipulator of the controls. They then fly to an airport >51nm away from where they took off where pilot L removes the foggles and performs a landing.
Who can log the XC?
I never log safety pilot time at all. However, I thought this horse was beaten to death either on here or somewhere else, and the result was that a safety pilot is a required crewmember and therefore can log SIC time, but only for the time when the PIC is under the hood.