Logging IFR Currency with safety pilot

[berge7f9]

Hi, I have about a week left of my second 6 months of instrument currency. I have a question dealing with logging those holds and approaches with a safety pilot. If I do an approach with a safety pilot, do I need to put down the name of the safety pilot, or other information indicating that a safety pilot was present?

[N422NM]

Just the name of the safety pilot, and of course the procedure you flew.

[berge7f9]

What would be required if I did a few approaches in an FAA-approved FTD with another CFI sitting in the back of the approved FTD?

[N422NM]

That it's logged and signed by the CFI-I running the FTD

[MidlifeFlyer]

Originally Posted by berge7f9

What would be required if I did a few approaches in an FAA-approved FTD with another CFI sitting in the back of the approved FTD?

Safest bet, regulation-wise, is to treat it and have the CFII (2-I's required) endorse it as instruction given.

Your primary regulatory reference is 61.51(g)(3) and (4)
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(3) For the purposes of logging instrument time to meet the recent instrument experience requirements of § 61.57(c) of this part, the following information must be recorded in the person's logbook -

(I) The location and type of each instrument approach accomplished; and

(ii) The name of the safety pilot, if required.

(4) A flight simulator or approved flight training device may be used by a person to log instrument time, provided an authorized instructor is present during the simulated flight.
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The FAR doesn't =say= that it has to be an instructional session but I've never seen anything from the FAA that helps to figure out what "an authorized instructor is present" means, so I think the best course of action is to log it as instruction, figuring that there was some reason the FAA wants an
authorized instructor" involved rather than your cousin Joey.

[meritflyer]

The "authorized instructor" may also be a person holding an IGI (instrument ground instructor) certificate when conducting IPCs or currency in a FTD or approved instrument training device.