Ok Islander, you got me there. In that case, my opinion has changed, and PUT is the
only way of logging checkouts.

Wouldn't have been my choice of how to do it, but at least it's reasonably definitive?
(On taking a closer look, I find that the reason I never noticed this before is because it is hidden in Note 3. Note 3 begins by saying "A pilot claiming hours as co-pilot towards meeting the overall flying experience for a license....." Since I'm not interested in hours as co-pilot, I skipped over this note entirely after the first sentence, without expecting a completely unrelated paragraph on PICUS to be hiding at the bottom of it.

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