Ah, but it's only QED if the two statements you use to get to the QED are correct, I contend the first one is incorrect and the second only means the person logging legal PIC is to have an IR. That is not neccesarily the person manipulating the controls.
Look in the FARs under "Logging PIC" and it will explain that you must be current and rated on the a/c.
Without an IR you are not rated to fly in cloud
FAR 61.51(e)(1)(i) says you have to be rated on the machine to log PIC, it doesn't say you have to be current. You must be current to act as PIC, not log it. Nowhere does it mention weather.
FAR 61.51(g)(i) says you can log instrument time when flying solely by reference to instruments. It doesn't mention weather, in fact you could log instrument time when flying VFR over an ocean on an overcast night.
This comes up so often because under the FARS the requirements for acting as PIC (responsibility) are different from those for logging PIC (essentially what the regs let you do). Once you get the two distinctions clear in your head it's a lot simpler.
Who is Jack Lynch? If he is anything lower than chief FAA legal council he is not authoritative when it comes to something as risky as interpreting the FARS in any way other than their literal meaning.
Last edited by slim_slag; 12th November 2004 at 14:05.