Changes in Instrument Proficiency Check Requirements

"Bill Zaleski" wrote in message
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What does the word "MUST" mean to you?

Take a look at page 4 of the current PTS or page 6 of the October 2004 PTS:

"All TASKs in these practical test standards are required for the issuance
of an instrument rating in airplanes, helicopters, and powered lift.
However, when a particular element is not appropriate to the aircraft, its
equipment, or operational capability, that element may be omited."

Thus in the current PTS not all tasks are required.

Actually, this is yet another argument supporting an IPC in an FTD in the
October 2004 PTS. The confusion comes about with the new paragraph on page
16 stating that the table comprises the minimum standard. But then the
footnote in the Appendix reverses this again and clarifies that an FTD
previously approved for a complete IPC remains approved for a complete IPC.

So I conclude that an IPC in an FTD after October 2004 will be "not not not
unauthorized" and thus will be legal.



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Richard Kaplan, CFII

www.flyimc.com

(Robert M. Gary) wrote
One guy tried to argue that the AIM wasn't regulatory too.
The NASA admin law judge didn't seem to buy that story either.
Right or wrong doesn't make any difference, its all what the
judge is going to say when you plead to keep your ticket.

NASA law judge????? I trust that you meant to say "the NTSB
administrative law judge".....right?

Bob Moore

Roy Smith wrote in message ...
I seem to remember there used to be wording to the effect that an
ICC/IPC needed to include a "representative sample" of the PTS checkride
tasks. I can't remember if that was in the PTS itself or part 61/91
somewhere. Or maybe it's just a faulty memory circuit?

Right, but the PTS was more explicit in giving a table of required
items on the IPC (this has been that way for many years). The issue is
whether those items that the PTS requires for an IPC have been
regulatory. In short, the FAA, when putting out the PTS, chose the
"representative sample" for you. The FARs never say the CFII gets to
pick.

-Robert, CFI