Originally Posted by
rickair7777
No doubt that it's legal. HOWEVER...if you are a low-time CFII be aware that watching students shoot approaches is NOT the same as doing it yourself. If you maintain currency that way but don't actually fly any approaches for a while you might be unpleasantly surprised when you do try to fly an approach in actual
Amen. There is a difference between "currency" (meeting the minimum requirements of the regulations) and "proficiency" (being competent for the mission) that is reflected in many reglations.
Being "night current" by doing 3 takeoffs and landings at night for the first time in 10 years in a 152 at your home airport make you "current" to carry passengers at night. It does not make you "proficient" to pile the wife and kids into a Saratoga for a night cross country from California to visit grandma in Kansas.
Log for currency. Fly for proficiency. Pray you never confuse the two.