Help me remember
06-11-2009 | 08:37 AM
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Help me remember
Ok, so I've been on furlough since august, and I want to get up and go fly a GA plane again. I know I'm considered current as a 121 guy, but when do I need to have my instrument reqs done to stay current. Do I start the 6 month clock on the date of my furlough (Aug 1), or my last checkride (Feb 08). I was instrument current on my last day of work. Also, I'm sure I'm in my grace period, if anything, so can I go up by myself, or do I need a safety pilot to go up in IMC. 61.57(c)&(d) is vauge on the subject. Any help would be appreciated.
06-11-2009 | 09:12 AM
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61.57 is vague? You did the checkride Feb of 08 so it's more than 6 months. The 6 month clock starts from the last date you can look back and find 6 logged approaches and a hold. If you did 3 in March, 2 in May and one in June and held in July you would have been good till Sept. For another 6 months you could do your own recurrent by going out and holding and doing 6 approaches. After that you need a IPC. So if you didn't do a total of 6 approaches (and hold) during June and July, you need the IPC.
06-11-2009 | 09:20 AM
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You don't need a safety pilot to go up in IMC, you need a PIC, which you can't be because you're not instrument current.
Agreed with Twin, find your last 6 approaches and hold (we'll say that any given day you probably intercepted and tracked radials). Whichever event happened least recently, thats your start point. 6 months from that date, you are current. After 6 months, you have the option of doing the approaches and hold in an FTD/SIM, grabbing a safety pilot to do simulated approaches, or grabbing a CFII and doing them in the soup.
After 12 months, you must to an IPC with a CFII.
Agreed with Twin, find your last 6 approaches and hold (we'll say that any given day you probably intercepted and tracked radials). Whichever event happened least recently, thats your start point. 6 months from that date, you are current. After 6 months, you have the option of doing the approaches and hold in an FTD/SIM, grabbing a safety pilot to do simulated approaches, or grabbing a CFII and doing them in the soup.
After 12 months, you must to an IPC with a CFII.
06-11-2009 | 01:02 PM
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When I originally read 61.57(d) and it says "a person who does not meet the instrument reqs of (c) within the prescribed time, or within 6 mo after the prescribed time, may not serve as PIC under IFR in WX less than the VFR mins...." and I had a brain freeze and thought that during the grace period I was able to act PIC. I then reread (c) and it is clear that I can't. So vague would be my logic on this, not the reg.
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