On 02/10/06 05:20, Gary Drescher wrote:
"Mark Hansen" wrote in message
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On 02/09/06 07:45, Gary Drescher wrote:
"three-eight-hotel" wrote in message
oups.com...
You have 6 months after your currency lapses to become current, without
having to do an IPC... You are not legal to fly IFR, but you may take
a safety pilot up with you and become current again. If you miss the 6
month window to become current, you will have to perform an IPC.

I'm sure if I stated that incorrectly or unclearly, someone will jump
in to correct me... ;-)

No error, but one addition may be useful: another alternative is to fly
IFR and do the approaches in IMC, but with another pilot (who's
IFR-current) acting as PIC.

--Gary

Wait a tick ;-) Are you saying that if you're beyond the 6-month
currency, that you can fly in actual IMC and all you need is an IR-
current safety pilot - not a CFII?

In this case, the IR-current pilot isn't functioning as "safety pilot".
That's the term for a traffic-spotting pilot in VMC when the pilot doing the
flying is wearing a hood. In my scenario, there's no hood and no safety
pilot--just another pilot acting as PIC.

Yes. My confusion was that my instructor told me that when the IR pilot
was not IMC current, and wanted to perform the actions to regain currency
in actual IMC (not simulated) that the person in the right seat had to
be a CFII.

However, after the discussions in the other parts of this thread and more
looking through the FARs, I see no evidence for this and now believe that
my instructor was wrong. Perhaps what he meant to say was "A CFII would
be more experienced in that situation, and so it would be safer, etc.".

.... it wouldn't be the first time I was given an opinion by the CFII
which was represented a fact/rule.


--Gary




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Mark Hansen, PP-ASEL, Instrument Airplane
Cal Aggie Flying Farmers
Sacramento, CA