Maintaining Instrument Currency

[vclean]

Remember that the FAR are written by govt. attorneys who are probably not pilots.

 

[minitour]

Be careful. Your six month grace (sept.-march) doesn't allow you to be PIC. You need a safety pilot! Then, in that grace period, if you log the items required for IFR currency, it all starts over.

So say you're going with a Private Pilot who's trying to get cross country hours for his IR. You decide to do a quick little cross country and you'll do 3 approaches at your destination, and three when you get back. So you want to go IFR just because you prefer to go IFR when you fly. Can you? Not actual IMC, you just want to file and fly IFR.

My guess would be no since you're not current to be PIC and he/she can't either because they can't be PIC under IFR either.

-mini

 

[midlifeflyer]

Why are you guessing?

 

[minitour]

Because either I was looking in the wrong place, or just couldn't find anything in the FARs to confirm...so I took a guess.

However, it could be this **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** flu clouding my mind with things other than regs and currency and inspections....

Ah fukc it...I'm going back to bed.

-mini

 

[Dinger]

You cannot accept an IFR clearance as a PIC if you are not instrument current as per FAR part 61.57(c)(1) even if it is VMC.

FAR 61.57(c) Instrument experience. ...blah, blah, blah....no person may act as PIC under IFR (read: on an IFR clearance) OR in weather conditions less than the minimums prescribed for VFR, unless in the preceeding 6 calender months, that person has........done all of the crap to get IFR current.

 

[minitour]

ah...yep...I was definately lookin in the wrong place...

Thanks!

 

[Lead Sled]

Minitour...

Did you ever take that checkride you were taking about?

 

[minitour]

Minitour...

Did you ever take that checkride you were taking about?

...still waiting...

I flew the other day for the first time in 8 days (checkride prep)

So now I'm waiting on the checkride...

But I don't think I want to take it until I feel much better...my head feels like its going to explode. I started feeling it the other day and almost busted an altitude on the approach coming back....I think it was due to the cold though...usually I nail that stuff....

But anyway.............

Still waiting.......

-mini