Furloughed 2 Long

[acarpe3448]

I have been on furlough for around a year now. I am so out of the aviation loop I am lost. Just wondering for you current experts, what exactly do I need to do to get myself current in all areas (ME, PIC, IFR etc.) so I can actually fly when recalled, or better yet, interview sometime soon. Am I looking at just a BFR, or what? My last recurrent 121 ride was in April 2002. My last full training course and checkride was in April 2001 on the MD88.

 

[Badger]

basic recurrency...

I think your 121 recurrent ride qualifies as a BFR under the regs.

You need the 3 landings (to full stop at night) w/i 90 prev days for passenger carriage. Nothing said about the class of aircraft (single/multi).

IFR Currency...must be able to look back 6 mo. and find [6 approaches, VOR tracking & intercepts, and and a hold]. => you can file & fly IFR.

If you can't find that...you have 6 mo. from when you lapsed to satisfy the requirements with a safety pilot (because you can't file/fly IFR).

If you look back 12 mo. and neither is satisied...you need an IPC or Instrument Proficiency Check with a CFII and it needs to be endorsed as such.

Neither the IFR Currency or Landings state Single/Multi (class) requirements. The cheapest way to do it all is...

find a CFII, rent a C172 at night and do your IPC with to full stop landings. Instant IFR/Night/Day Currency.

I've also gotta add, get the book for the aircraft and look at it before going. I've checked out US Airways, United, Airtran folks in a little old cherokee and every one of them has needed some extra time due to the lack of an FMS/INS/Autopilot/ and the visual pitch attitude & speed differences they're overcoming going from a B767 to a PA28.

I'm sure it's a tough wait...what have you been doing for a year out of curiousity. Get any flying job you can and go for Jetblue with your times, especially with the big EMB order out there.

Good luck.

 

[bigD]

Neither the IFR Currency or Landings state Single/Multi (class) requirements.

You're right about the IFR, but regarding landings, take a look at 61.57:

(a) General experience. (1) Except as provided in paragraph (e) of this section, no person may act as a pilot in command of an aircraft carrying passengers or of an aircraft certificated for more than one pilot flight crewmember unless that person has made at least three takeoffs and three landings within the preceding 90 days, and --

(i) The person acted as the sole manipulator of the flight controls; and

(ii) The required takeoffs and landings were performed in an aircraft of the same category, class, and type (if a type rating is required), and, if the aircraft to be flown is an airplane with a tailwheel, the takeoffs and landings must have been made to a full stop in an airplane with a tailwheel.

 

[Badger]

Class req.

My bad. Thanks for correcting. I expected a little something would need fixing as I was depending soley on my brain for the FAR's...uh I mean 14CFR blah blah.

 

[bigD]

Heh - no problem man! I can never seem to remember it all myself. I just know this particular one because I'm always struggling to stay current in singles.

 

[blott]

right seat doesn't need ipc. (unless you are right seat PIC somehow)