Well let me help educate you …
The word is certified not certificated. So you lose all credibility arguing rule nuance when you use such an obviously inept word.
Second there is only one PIC and he is the left seater. On any aircraft there is a buck stops here guy, he is the PIC. His alone is the decision making authority should there arise a conflict or an emergency. If the right seater is flying the leg and the left seater says “I have the airplane”. The next response is from the FO “you have the airplane”. If the PIC were the guy flying the damn plane, he would not or could not be COMMANDED to relinquish authority.
Got it?
So helicopters are not aircraft?
The word is certified not certificated. So you lose all credibility arguing rule nuance when you use such an obviously inept word.
Second there is only one PIC and he is the left seater. On any aircraft there is a buck stops here guy, he is the PIC. His alone is the decision making authority should there arise a conflict or an emergency. If the right seater is flying the leg and the left seater says “I have the airplane”. The next response is from the FO “you have the airplane”. If the PIC were the guy flying the damn plane, he would not or could not be COMMANDED to relinquish authority.”
No. The gentleman was correct. We are certificated pilots, not certified. I have a pilot certificate in my pocket.
The PIC can sit in different seats. A flight instructor, for example, with a student pilot, sits in the right seat of a fixed wing aircraft and is the pilot in command, while the student, most of the time, is the pilot flying.