. Absolute bollocks. The pilot has to abide by the Ops manual he is working to. If it states that it is a multi crew operation then the P1 must have an ATPL and the crew must be correctly qualified as per the authorisation granted by the authority. If these conditions aren’t met and it’s a single pilot operation with a TC, it matters not whether it’s a CPL holder or a paramedic sat in the LHS. It cannot be logged.
anecdotal evidence shows me that there are so many “dodgy” logbooks now because people who are not entitled to log P2 log it anyway as they don’t want to suffer the down side of being the TCM.
we have created a system of madness where people are employed as pilots but cannot log it, where they log it anyway and many are confused about the rules, and nothing is enforced.
and when they move into other sectors such as offshore, there is little confidence or no confidence about the hours they claim, so they have to go for a pre employment offer sim check because the system is broken.
and another thing, this whole mess of type ratings where people come from a type rating course MP only rated, EASA have completely confused the the type rating and the role in which it’s flown, so everyone should have the SP then add the MP should the role in which it’s flown require it, but instead we have the madness where AW139 Pilots of many years experience can’t fly it SP in any role even for a air test without doing an “SP course” which is a mechanism to take up to another €20k from them for no good reason.