Advice needed around safety pilot
Take into consideration the following scenario.
I am flying with my colleague acting as the captain for all flights. We are both rated on the aircraft but he is rated on that type as a single pilot while I am rated as multi-pilot. Currently the aircraft is operated as single pilot only in our company. It is clear to me that I won’t be able to log any time on that type because the aircraft is operated as SP but:
1) Can I claim myself to be and act as a safety pilot since I don’t have a SP rating on that aircraft?
2) The captain (which is not FI rated) sometime hand over the controls to me so I can feel that I am not so useless. While doing this he still remain the Captain and off course I still can’t log the time in my log book. Are we breaking any air law by doing this?