Originally Posted by Spendid Cruiser
for something like a club checkout, either the instructor logs the flight as P1 and you as SNY or you as P1 and him SNY
A 'club checkout' is purely a 'club' thing. It is not a UK CAA Licensing requirement being neither 'training' nor 'testing', therefore a 'club checkout' does not legally require the 'checker' to be an instructor, or even a licensed pilot for that matter. The club can make its own rules. (I have been 'checked out' within a club environment by more experienced non-FI PPLs and by an unlicensed but experienced pilot with a lapsed medical). It is a matter for the Owner or Operator or the Trustees of the aircraft. Insurers may or may not have some say in the matter. The important thing is to agree who is to be the PIC beforehand considering the multiplicity of circumstances. The PIC must be prepared to take sole responsibility for the flight. The UK CAA would not be interested in anything outside the licensing processes. As a 'club checkout' is not a licensing 'test' PICUS cannot apply. There can only be one PIC. SNY is the other pilot's choice, it cannot be counted for anything other than posterity.