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"Peter Clark" wrote in message
... [...] If it is a standard UK certificate, wouldn't his easier path be getting a US PPL based on foreign cert, a-la 61.75? You'd think. But each pilot has their own circumstance. I'll take it as granted that if a pilot feels it's easier to go through the "long form" certification process than to convert a UK certificate, then it is. ![]() Or perhaps in spite of all that aeronautical experience, he doesn't actually hold a convertable certificate. I don't know. Actually, I believe you might be mistaken on this one - the only night exemption is I can see is 61.110 which appears to apply to Alaska only. Hmmm...interesting. Either my memory is too fuzzy, or this is yet another example of a subtle change that occurred in 1997 (if I even have the year correct), and which I've failed to note. They appear to have kept in the general (non-Alaska) exception for gyroplanes, powered parachutes, and weight-shift-control aircraft. I could swear that, at least at some point in my past, they permitted general "no night flying" certificates, even for pilots outside of Alaska. Of course, the main point is that to be allowed to fly at night, all holders of an FAA certificate obtained through the usual process must meet the night training requirements. Pete |
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Hmmm...interesting. Either my memory is too fuzzy, or this is yet
another example of a subtle change that occurred in 1997 (if I even have the year correct), and which I've failed to note. They appear to have kept in the general (non-Alaska) exception for gyroplanes, powered parachutes, and weight-shift-control aircraft. I could swear that, at least at some point in my past, they permitted general "no night flying" certificates, even for pilots outside of Alaska. You're correct... but they closed that. Now, you can only get the exception living in Alaska, but I _think_ you have to go back and do the night stuff within six months or something like that. I had to do the night training (which led to a last-minute hop the night before my checkride to get the rest of the landings in) but it was all done with an instructor (the XC is a story for a different time...). I think they closed the exemption because too many people were trying to cheat the restriction and were having accidents (read: got themselves killed) so they figured it was better to make everyone do it even if they aren't going to use it again. Now, we can debate the intelligence of VFR XC's at night in single-engined airplanes for a long time to come... personally, I don't fly more than a few miles from my home area (where I can reconginze the landscape and airports, and can orient just by seeing Atlanta on the horizon) at night, and even then I won't go without a working, lighted GPS. |
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