ahkahn
Line Up and Wait
OK, so this is my attempt at creating the ultimate "Can I log it?" thread.
Let's say that we're flying across country on, well, a 767. I'm sitting there minding your own business, there is a sick kid in the back of the plane with a nun playing a guitar to entertain him, a couple of guys speaking to each other in some form of jive language, and a few other characters around you on the plane. I fall into relaxation to the soothing sound of turboprops. The flight attendants are serving dinner, and well, I choose the chicken, but others choose the fish. We find out later that the two pilots ate the fish. Everyone who ate the fish ends up getting violently ill, and passes out... including the pilots.
So now, a doctor, who happens to be on the plane, comes out and asks if anyone happens to be a pilot. Well, now is my time to shine! Yes, I'm a pilot. I'm an instrument rated private pilot who only has a single-engine airplane license. So, anyway, I hop up front and begin making sense of all of the buttons and knobs. Over the course of moving the pilots out of the way (I sat left seat... the autopilot sat right seat), I find out that the co-pilot was still a flight instructor! Awesome, I can log dual! So, I grab the controls, start pressing buttons and twisting knobs on the FMS, and radio center and let them know I've now become the pilot of the plane. You can hear ATC stressing out, pacing, and chain-smoking, but I assure them, I'm a great pilot, and that I actually have flown since the war.
Between me and the autopilot, and although there were some weird interruptions by the doctor continuing to wish us well, we brought the plane down to the runway without incident. Had an odd bonding experience with the main flight attendant, but that's a different story.... but anyway, as I'm leaving the cockpit, it dawns on me, I need this passed out co-pilot to sign my logbook. Well, confession time, I forged his signature. He was passed out. But, I had his info, and well, legally, he was present for the dual.
Summary:
Flying a plane I'm not rated in.
Flight instructor on board.
Emergency in effect (I did declare)
My take is that I can log dual and PIC - multi, night, instrument, and cross country (yes, it was at night, and we hit clouds).
Am I logging correctly?
Let's say that we're flying across country on, well, a 767. I'm sitting there minding your own business, there is a sick kid in the back of the plane with a nun playing a guitar to entertain him, a couple of guys speaking to each other in some form of jive language, and a few other characters around you on the plane. I fall into relaxation to the soothing sound of turboprops. The flight attendants are serving dinner, and well, I choose the chicken, but others choose the fish. We find out later that the two pilots ate the fish. Everyone who ate the fish ends up getting violently ill, and passes out... including the pilots.
So now, a doctor, who happens to be on the plane, comes out and asks if anyone happens to be a pilot. Well, now is my time to shine! Yes, I'm a pilot. I'm an instrument rated private pilot who only has a single-engine airplane license. So, anyway, I hop up front and begin making sense of all of the buttons and knobs. Over the course of moving the pilots out of the way (I sat left seat... the autopilot sat right seat), I find out that the co-pilot was still a flight instructor! Awesome, I can log dual! So, I grab the controls, start pressing buttons and twisting knobs on the FMS, and radio center and let them know I've now become the pilot of the plane. You can hear ATC stressing out, pacing, and chain-smoking, but I assure them, I'm a great pilot, and that I actually have flown since the war.
Between me and the autopilot, and although there were some weird interruptions by the doctor continuing to wish us well, we brought the plane down to the runway without incident. Had an odd bonding experience with the main flight attendant, but that's a different story.... but anyway, as I'm leaving the cockpit, it dawns on me, I need this passed out co-pilot to sign my logbook. Well, confession time, I forged his signature. He was passed out. But, I had his info, and well, legally, he was present for the dual.
Summary:
Flying a plane I'm not rated in.
Flight instructor on board.
Emergency in effect (I did declare)
My take is that I can log dual and PIC - multi, night, instrument, and cross country (yes, it was at night, and we hit clouds).
Am I logging correctly?
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