logging SPIC hours as Instructor
Greeting to you all,
I'm recently started my working as a flight instructor in one of the aviation academy where we have an Integrated ATPL program. During the VFR cross-country phase, the students usually fly this part as SPIC hours (Student Pilot In Command). Usually during the SPIC hours, we fly with the students only supervising them without influence or control the flight of the aircraft. My question is, how to log these hours from Instructor perspective. Is it allowed for me to log it as PIC and Instructor hour or only PIC? or is it just only logged as PIC? I asked my colleagues about this matter and all of them were telling me to fill the SPIC exercises under both PIC and Instructor hours. They told me they are doing it in that way and even when they were submitting their records to the CAA to add extra privilege in their FI license it was always approved. I tried to search about this in EASA rules to stay away from any violation and what I found is the following under (AMC1 FCL.050 Recording of flight time) and it was stating the following:"Column 10: pilot function time: (i) enter flight time as PIC, SPIC and PICUS as PIC; (ii) all time recorded as SPIC or PICUS is countersigned by the aircraft PIC/FI in the ‘remarks’ (column 12); (iii) instructor time should be recorded as appropriate and also entered as PIC." There is nothing completely clear about it. So I would love to hear from you about this matter. Thank you in advance! |
I asked my colleagues about this matter and all of them were telling me to fill the SPIC exercises under both PIC and Instructor hours. You are the Aircraft Commander (you may take over control at any time) so you record your flight time as PIC. A Student Pilot In Command can only be accompanied by an Instructor (see definition below, my bold and italics), so you must also have been acting as an Instructor and should, therefore, also record that you performed this function during the flight. FCL.010 Definitions ‘Student pilot-in-command' (SPIC) means a student pilot acting as pilot-in-command on a flight with an instructor where the latter will only observe the student pilot and shall not influence or control the flight of the aircraft. |
Thank you for your feedback!
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When in doubt, just ask yourself: "Who is going to be held responsible if we do something stupid during this flight (e.g. bust some airspace)? Mr. SPIC or I?" The answer to this question will tell you what to write into your logbook…
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All of this should be clearly stated in the ATO's Operations Manual.
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I reckon the clue is in:
(iii) instructor time should be recorded as appropriate and also entered as PIC. The OPS manual should make this clear and if that is not the case, it could be the start of an interesting conversation about procedures at your ATO ;) |
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