A couple of questions about IPC

"Mark Hansen" wrote in message
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On 02/09/06 07:45, Gary Drescher wrote:
"three-eight-hotel" wrote in message
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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.

--Gary