Originally Posted by soseg
1. What the hell is this VH-BIC you guys talk about? I'm not catching on? I'm presuming its a joke about the company BiC that makes the pens? ie "BIC time" is fake time?
You got it, it's an old joke referring to flight time that exists only in the form of a pen entry in the logbook, i.e., no flight actually took place. It's possibly less obvious now that Bic biros aren't as common as they once were.
And yes, "dual" is something you do with an instructor, when you are in the right hand seat with another PPL, you are a passenger regardless of whether you manipulate the controls or not.