Night Flying Tips

"BoDEAN" wrote in message
Any general tips on night flying?
Haven't flown at night in over a year, and I need to go up tonight and
get current, and do a cross country.


Any chance of bringing along someone who's night current? Your perceptions
may be a little rusty.

I try very hard (not always successful) never to fly a route at
night that I haven't flown in daylight.

As for carrying someone along who is night current -- unless they're
CFI or Commercial, isn't that the point? To get current to carry
passengers? If CFI or Commercial, then they could be considered
the PIC and you're the passenger so it's legal.

Can't find my FAR right now, this is all from memory...

And there are times I'm convinced that senility set in with puberty

"Blanche" wrote in message
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As for carrying someone along who is night current -- unless they're
CFI or Commercial, isn't that the point? To get current to carry
passengers? If CFI or Commercial, then they could be considered
the PIC and you're the passenger so it's legal.

If the other pilot is acting as pilot in command, there is no problem
bringing them along. They do not need to be a CFI or hold a Commercial
Pilot certificate in order to act as pilot in command. They simply need to
meet the same "acting PIC" requirements that any other pilot would for
carrying passengers (since the pilot manipulating the controls would be a
passenger).

Pete