Delta Connection Academy

Supervised Pilot in Command

As a part of your Commercial Certificate, you need to log five hours as pilot in command (PIC) in the multi engine. These are supervised for insurance reasons. You also need 10 night landings. You cover these in two night flights, one before the stage check and one after. As PIC, you have to do everything as if you were the only one in the plane. My instructor just sits there & says nothing & does nothing. It’s very strange at first, because up until the first SPIC, everything was done together – We used crew resource management (CRM) where he read the checklist & I completed the task. Some earlier revisions didn’t have CRM and you had to be more proficient earlier. If your revision is all CRM, I’d suggest you ask your instructor to step back with each lesson and let you do more. Once I completed my SPIC, it gave me a lot more confidence with my skills in the multi. Good luck with yours!