Originally Posted by
propilot
No. You aren't night current, therefore you cannot carry passengers at night. Since you can't carry passengers at night, you can't fly the airplane, land the airplane, or log the flight time. It's in black and white in the first paragraph of FAR 61.57. The only way around it is if it's a multi-crew airplane or the other person is an instructor and your getting dual received, until that 3rd landing is made, you can't legally do it.
I agree with this one. Pretty hard to get around the "can't carry passengers at night". As soon as you take the controls, you are flying as PIC without having the required night landings. Doesn't matter who you are with if you have "passengers".
The only exception I know if is the FAA legal interp:
http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/...kraxinterp.pdf If you are getting night current, not presently current, and your "passenger" is a properly rated flight instructor giving you dual, neither one of you have to be night current, and neither one of you are considered a "passenger" for the purpose of getting your landings.