Mon May 10, 2021 3:26 pm
#1846079
Is there anything stopping me being PIC in an aircraft, if my friend hired it?
As in - is there a law that allows an owner to control who is PIC of their aircraft?
Could I hire an aircraft, then separately hire an instructor, to, say, do some night instructor for me without the owner giving the instructor permission to be PIC?
I'm wondering if there is normally some line buried in an insurance document which says that PIC can only be a person authorised by the owner. As such - any other person wouldn't be insured to be PIC (and so being PIC would be illegal). I've not found such a line (the headline policy I've seen just says "any pilot over 100 hours PIC" or similar).
I'm not contemplating doing any of this myself - it came up in conversation that there wasn't anything legally stopping one of our aircraft group owners letting their friend log P1 time in the group aircraft (and so be PIC during that portion of the flight).
As in - is there a law that allows an owner to control who is PIC of their aircraft?
Could I hire an aircraft, then separately hire an instructor, to, say, do some night instructor for me without the owner giving the instructor permission to be PIC?
I'm wondering if there is normally some line buried in an insurance document which says that PIC can only be a person authorised by the owner. As such - any other person wouldn't be insured to be PIC (and so being PIC would be illegal). I've not found such a line (the headline policy I've seen just says "any pilot over 100 hours PIC" or similar).
I'm not contemplating doing any of this myself - it came up in conversation that there wasn't anything legally stopping one of our aircraft group owners letting their friend log P1 time in the group aircraft (and so be PIC during that portion of the flight).