Currency

"Jose" <teacherjh@aol.nojunk.com> wrote in message
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>> My currency just ran out last month and I was wondering within the next
>> six months Im allowed to have a safty pilot with me or do I need a
>> instructor to perform the six approches holds and tracking?
>
> You can have a safety pilot and do the approaches VMC and VFR.

Yup. Or you can do the approaches IFR (either IMC, or VMC with a hood) if
you bring an instrument-current pilot who is the PIC for the flight.

--Gary

"jamin3508" <jamin35008m> wrote:
> My currency just ran out last month and I was wondering within the next
> six months Im allowed to have a safty pilot with me or do I need a
> instructor to perform the six approches holds and tracking?

As long as you operate under VFR, you can get yourself current again with
just a safety pilot (unless the safety pilot is able and willing to act as
PIC under IFR).

Roy Smith wrote:
> "jamin3508" <jamin35008m> wrote:
>
>>My currency just ran out last month and I was wondering within the next
>>six months Im allowed to have a safty pilot with me or do I need a
>>instructor to perform the six approches holds and tracking?
>
>
> As long as you operate under VFR, you can get yourself current again with
> just a safety pilot (unless the safety pilot is able and willing to act as
> PIC under IFR).

At which point he's not a safety pilot, he's the pilot in command.
Safety pilots only have regulatory menaing for simulated instrument
flight.

And at which point you can no longer log instrument time/maneuvers towards
currency because the safety pilot is now PIC. The obvious exception is if
the safety pilot happens to be a CFII.

Jim
>
> At which point he's not a safety pilot, he's the pilot in command. Safety
> pilots only have regulatory menaing for simulated instrument
> flight.

Peter Clark wrote:

>>At which point he's not a safety pilot, he's the pilot in command.
>>Safety pilots only have regulatory menaing for simulated instrument
>>flight.
>
>
> Isn't that what Roy already said by saying "willing to act as PIC"?
>

Sorry, just being overly pedantic. When he "willing acts as PIC in IFR
conditions" he isn't a safety pilot anymore.

> But if someone else is PIC, can the "copilot" count the approaches
> toward currency?

Yes.

That is, if by "copilot" you mean the pilot flying - the one with his
hands on the controls, whether or not he has the final authority for the
flight.

Jose
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