Pilot survival instinct and training should have all
instrument pilots demanding that they be really current,
after all they are most likely to kill themselves and their
families.

Its kind of like brain surgery, a good doctor and clean
operating room costs a lot more than the witch doctor in an
alley, your choice.



"Roy Smith" wrote in message
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| In article ,
| pgbnh wrote:
| Can one fail an IPC?
|
| That depends on the definition of "fail" :-)
|
| Certainly, one can fail to complete it, in which case the
instructor
| simply doesn't give you the IPC endorsement in your
logbook. But,
| there won't be any "Failed IPC" logged, nor will there be
a failure
| notification sent to the FAA like when you fail a
checkride.
|
| Here's an interesting twist: you've got 3 approaches
logged in the
| last 6 months, and decide rather than just going up and
flying 3 more
| with a safety pilot to get legal again, you're going to
take an IPC.
| You don't fly to the PTS standards, so your IPC instructor
does not
| sign you off for the IPC. However, you have just flown
three more
| approaches, bringing your total for the last 6 months up
to 6 (and
| presumably all the other silly stuff like doing a hold).
Presto, in
| the course of "failing" an IPC, you have just become
legally current
| again. Deciding if this makes sense is left as an
excercise for the
| reader.