Is an IPC a substitute for 6 approaches?

All that is required is for the pilot to record the name of
the safety pilot, no endorsement is required, not even the
certificate number.

But after 12 months from the first day you were current [six
months after currency lapsed] you must have an IPC.
So, after 12 months, with no approaches in the mean time, an
IPC makes you current.

61.57 says an IPC makes you current, it does not say an IPC
and 6 approaches.



"Allen" wrote in message
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| "Roy Smith" wrote in message
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| Allen wrote:
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| "Roy Smith" wrote in message
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| Interesting. That an IPC would make a pilot current
for IFR for 6
| months, regardless of the number of approaches done,
is something
| that I've always just thought I've "known".
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| It works the other way too. Let's say you've only got
3 approaches
| logged in the last 6 months and come to me for an IPC.
We fly 3 more
| approaches, I decide that you suck at instruments and
decline to sign
| you off for an IPC.
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| You're now legally current anyway, by virtue of having
flown 6
| approaches.
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| Not if the approaches were flown in VMC and you do not
sign as safety
| pilot.
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| There's no such thing as "sign as safety pilot".
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| Whether you write or he writes it your name will be in his
logbook.
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