"Bill Zaleski" wrote in message
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of experience issue. An IPC consists of both ground and flight
examination, as per the rating task table of the instrument PTS. A

I agree for the most part with what you are saying. However, a flight
training device may be used as a substitute for the flight portion of the
IPC. The definition of flight time in 1.1 requires an aircraft for flight.
Therefore, it would seem that the training done in a flight training device
is legally ground training rather than flight training.

Let us take the other side of what you are saying and conclude that an IGI
can only perform the ground training elements of the PTS and not the flight
elements. Well there is no mechanism in Part 91 for an IPC to be done by 2
separate instructors; the only way 2 separate instructors can work on an IPC
is through a certified school such as a Part 142 school. So if an IGI
cannot sign off an IPC in a flight training device, then the IGI would have
no role at all for a Part 91 IPC.


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Richard Kaplan, CFII

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