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Old February 25th 07, 04:56 PM posted to rec.aviation.ifr
Travis Marlatte
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Default New IFR Currency requirements...!

"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
...
An instrument take-off can be done under the hood, but the
FAA practice has been to put the hood on at 100-200 feet.
And then fail an engine on a twin.


"Don Poitras" wrote in message
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| Dan wrote:
| So what does everyone think about the proposed new IFR
currency
| requirements? The major changes seem to be that 1 hour
of cross-
| country time will be required, along with six
approaches, consisting
| of BOTH precision and non-precision, and two types of
holds.
|
| Some of this can be completed in a PCATD, but an
instructor must be
| present. (I wonder if a remote MSFS console via the
Internet counts..)
|
| Most of it sounds OK to me, however I think the 1 hour
of cross-
| country time is pointless. What would be considered
cross-country? It
| is a little vague...
|
| Here is the link:
|
|
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2...df/E7-1467.pdf
|
| The interesting bit starts on page 31 of the PDF.
|
| I've never done a takeoff under the hood. I wonder if it
would be ok if
| I did that just before rotating or if it needs to be done
for the
| entire roll. I'm glad my home airport runway is 100 feet
wide...
|
| Yes, I know we can legally take off zero zero. It's just
not something
| I think I need to practice every six months.
|
| With a /G plane, the hold over the radio station and
intersection are
| no different. I wonder where these requirements are coming
from? Has
| someone been complaining that pilots aren't doing holds
very well and
| should practice more? An hour cross country? My last
currency ride actually
| did last more than an hour. We didn't cross much country
though. We
| did a GPS at Chapel Hill and from the hold at the missed
went to the
| nearby IAP for the GPS at my home airport at Sanford.
They're 21 miles
| apart.
|
|
| --Dan
|
|
| --
| Don Poitras


That's nice with an instructor. I'm not sure that I would trust that flight
scenario with the typical safety pilots I recruit. Most are non-instrument
rated and maybe even unfamiliar with my plane. Transitioning to the hood
just after rotation (which I find more difficult than transition to IMC),
close to the ground, in a climb, following a departure procedure, in a busy
airspace sounds like a tough scenario to require every six months.

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Travis
Lake N3094P
PWK


 




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