ifr question

[A Squared]

Not to comment on the safety or advisability of it, but the POI at my company used to do checkrides with the checkee's windshield completely coverd with a piece of cardboard. The opposite side windshield was left uncovered of course. That method was discarded along with the POI.


Regards

 

[avbug]

Note that covering half the windshield with a chart, a sock or hood, or cardboard doesn't fulfill the requirement of the FAR unless the safety pilot has full visibility forward and to BOTH sides. Otherwise, an observer to supplement the blocked field of vision for the safety pilot, is required. It's great that examiners and POI's can see out "their side," but that only addresses traffic coming from that side.

A safety pilot is not aboard to take control in the event of pilot error on the part of the person flying by reference to instruments. The safety pilot is there for safety, and to watch out for traffic. It's legal to fly with the cockpit encased or the windscreen blanked out, so long as the safety pilot can still do his or her job. If a big piece of cardboard is blocking the field of vision for the safety pilot and a supplementary competent observer isn't available, it's not legal, and it's NOT safe.

It must be done under the right circumstances, or it shouldn't be done at all.

 

[Floyd94]

I should have known...