[ml/nj]

“Safety pilot” is the PIC? What of an evaluator pilot. . .doesn’t he perform safety duties?

I don't know much about "evaluator pilot's." I'm not sure what you mean. If you get a check ride for a new rating, currency, biennial, whatever, you're likely to spend sometime under a hood and obviously cannot be PIC then. My understanding, and it's just that, is that if you go up with an instructor in the right seat, he's the PIC the whole time.

ML/NJ

[Niteflyr]

I am an instrument rated private pilot. I know about these things. And English is my mother tongue.