Who is PIC once the sun sets?

[Ed Haywood]

And if you are in the right seat and not proficient making landing from the right seat you should not accept PIC status.

Is there any regulatory basis for the PIC necessarily being in the left seat to begin with?

 

[bflynn]

You may be the “ Inadvertent PIC” then.

So if I'm comfortable back in coach and both pilots had the fish...I could become the "inadvertent PIC"?

 

[Clip4]

Is there any regulatory basis for the PIC necessarily being in the left seat to begin with?

Neither left or front.

 

[Magman]

So if I'm comfortable back in coach and both pilots had the fish...I could become the "inadvertent PIC"?

If coach is a Super Cub?

CFI was in back seat n thought going for ride with rated pilot.

NTSB report on fatal insists CFI was PIC.

 

[Salty]

Neither left or front.

Perhaps not, but with the lack of any other evidence to the contrary, you’d be hard pressed to convince me or your average person, that the person in the left seat was not acting as PIC on a random flight, if neither are CFIs.

 

[bflynn]

If coach is a Super Cub?

CFI was in back seat n thought going for ride with rated pilot.

NTSB report on fatal insists CFI was PIC.

I was thinking a 747. A cub isn't as exciting.