New IFR Currency requirements...!

On 02/25/07 08:52, Travis Marlatte wrote:
"Roy Smith" wrote in message
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In article ,
Jose wrote:


A full stop landing damn well is part of instrument flying. The whole
point of an instrument flight is to get to another airport when the
weather
is bad.


I suppose 50 miles is somewhat arbitrary, but it seems to me that the
whole
point here is to get people away from their familiar home environment. If
taking two 50 mile flights twice a year is a hardship, I don't understand
what people are doing with their ratings.

Yeah, right. And it's kind of hard to do that in much less than 50 miles.
On any kind of real IFR flight with weather that's at all marginal, one of
the first things I do once I get settled into cruise is call up flight
watch and get an update on weather along my route. There's neither time
nor reason to do that on a 25 mile hop to the next airport over.


This is for currency. If one doesn't fly any real IFR over a six-month

Uhhh, let's not get IFR and IMC confused. You can fly all the IFR you
want over the six month period, including approaches, holding, etc.
yet still need to do the currency.

period, then requiring a little enroute flying with the appropriate
transitions at the ends seems reasonable. It is the wording that bothers me.
It seems to imply that currency would include a single flight that entails
all the transitions and enroute time. What if I had an hour of real IFR and
an approach or two and just needed to fill in the gaps?


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Travis
Lake N3094P
PWK





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