Imagine the following hypothetical situation. During a visit to America, you decide to get yourself some FAA rating - let's say an IR, or a Seaplane rating, it doesn't really matter. How do you log the successful flight test?
My gut feeling was PIC U/S - that's what you log for a successful flight test, right?
Er - no. I was just answering a question on this subject on a different forum, and decided to look up the relevant bits of LASORS (
Section A, Appendix B) so I could quote from it. And what do I find?
Case J: "Pilot undergoing any form of flight test
with a JAA or CAA Authorised Examiner" may log PIC U/S for a successful test.
Since I figure that the FAA examiner is unlikely to be a JAA or CAA Authorised Examiner, that would rule this out. Thoughts, please???
(My own thoughts, completely unsubstantiated: there is no other case listed in LASORS which even comes close to this scenario other than Case J, so PIC U/S is the most correct answer. And in any case, it's only going to be a couple of hours at the most, and not even the CAA are going to quibble over a couple of hours, are they?)
FFF
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