Flying with another student pilot? Allowed?

Yeah, not even a question.

Correct. If a student pilot is in an aircraft with another occupant, that other person MUST be an appropriately rated/qualified pilot and operating as PIC. The student is the passenger.
 
Under the current rules, unseparated siamese twins could never meet the requirements to get a PPL.
 
No it's not. We had this phone conversation already like a year ago.

Work through your flowchart with the following variables:

I am a student, with a student certificate. I am taking my check ride and the DPE is with me. Can I log PIC?
 
Yeah, on that one occasion, you can. Whats funny, is you've spent 7 years trying to break it.
 
Wrong. There is more than one scenario where the student is PIC - and it involves a passenger. Think about it.

Nope, at that point the flight operated without a PIC. Still not kosher, but there is a difference even if subtle.
Yes, there is the DE scenario, but let the plane crash and see who the feds go after as PIC.
 
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Wait, why couldn't conjoined twins become pilot(s)?
 
Nope, at that point the flight operated without a PIC. Still not kosher, but there is a difference even if subtle.
Yes, there is the DE scenario, but let the plane crash and see who the feds go after as PIC.

I was explicitly told I was to be PIC for the flight by every DPE on each check ride where I couldn't legally be PIC with a passenger. Seeing as they were, and you aren't, I'll side with them.
 
I was explicitly told I was to be PIC for the flight by every DPE on each check ride where I couldn't legally be PIC with a passenger. Seeing as they were, and you aren't, I'll side with them.

I already said that and you said there was another.
 
Wait, why couldn't conjoined twins become pilot(s)?

They can. Conjoined twins form a single entity with two heads. Nowhere does it say that a two headed pilot is not allowed.
 
Is the other student pilot pilot in command with a solo signoff?

If yes, then you are not PIC and cannot use your solo signoff

If no, then you are PIC and he is a passenger.

Logic?

Solo = 1 PIC all alone
 
I read a story about a student that had been signed off for solo and was using his plane to commute and racked up a ton of hours before his checkride.

I racked up tons of hours before my checkride, but by CFI endorsement I could only fly on own within 25nm to two specific airports.

Every Cross Country, and there were a handful really far, required CAVU, daylight, and my CFI signing off on my flight plan.
 
See what happens when you look things up on your own, instead of saying "where?" :)
 
It is absolutely legal for two (PPL) student pilots to be in a plane at the same time without a CFI.


Wait for it...


As long as the plane is a Light Sport and one of them has a Sport license.
 
It is absolutely legal for two (PPL) student pilots to be in a plane at the same time without a CFI.


Wait for it...


As long as the plane is a Light Sport and one of them has a Sport license.

Well kinda. The sport pilot would have to be PIC, and the other student couldn't log the time.
 
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