The only time i had a "safety pilot" on board was during the checkride on the light aircraft!
The hooded instrument flights were all logged as DUAL! Naturally as i was receiving instructions for all the flights!
The checkride was logged as PIC U/S.
Its pretty amazing when i see fliers from some schools always arrive at the cross country trips with 2 persons in the aircraft! While talking to them they say each is acting as the safety pilot for the other on different legs of the cross country!
But then they both log the entire flt as SOLO! something seems terribly wrong here. Mind you these were VFR X country flts! OH they have another term for it. they called it "SHARED flights" meaning you share the rental for the aircraft while doubling your solo time!
Blatant violation of regulations!