There is no requirement to fly an approach "in hard IMC to minimums".

The last thing I saw published by tthe FAA was that the approach had merely
to be "initiated" in IMC to be loggable.


"Ron Garret" wrote in message
...
In article 1108486843.338708@sj-nntpcache-5, Dave Butler
wrote:

Victor J. Osborne, Jr. wrote:
The regs say no. That's why many use hoods and safety pilots to keep
current.

Sure wish you'd include a little context from the posting you are
replying to
so
I'd have some idea what you are talking about. You can't depend on
people
seeing
the same sequence of postings that you see, and just backing up one
posting.
The
order of arrival of postings is server-dependent. Thanks.

The original question was: under what circumstances can an approach be
logged for the purposes of maintaining IFR currency? Obviously if
you're under the hood with a safety pilot or in hard IMC to minimums you
can log it, and if you're in VMC without a hood you can't. But where is
the line?

rg