Pilot Qualifications Flashcards
Min Aeronautical experience required for an instrument rating?
50 XC PIC (10 in airplanes)
40 hrs actual or simulated instrument time
- 15 with CFII
- Includes 1 XC 250 on airway or directed by ATC, IAP at each airport, 3
Diff IAPs, filed IFR flight plan
3 hrs flight prep for checkride in the last 2 cal mos
You logged 1 approach in January, 1 in February, 2 in March, 3 in April, 1 in May, 1 in June, 2 in July, and 1 in August (along with a hold). Each of these approaches occurred on the first of the month. What is the first day that you are no longer instrument current?
November 1.
What IRA privileges did you just lose as of November 1? I.e. what were you permitted to do on October 31 that you are now no longer allowed to do until you regain your IRA currency?
Can no longer act as PIC under IFR or in weather conditions less than those prescribed for VFR. More specifically, you can not longer:
1) fly in class A airspace
2) file an IFR flight plan
3) fly special VFR at night
4) fly in conditions less than basic VFR.
How many approaches must you accomplish and log in November to regain your currency?
One.
What are your options for how to accomplish this approach?
In either an appropriately rated simulator or during a flight with a safety pilot or CFII
Would you be current if you came in one night and did the approach(es) by yourself in one of our AATDs?
Yes, as long as you log it. And as long as the approach is in IMC down to mins.
Let’s say you did two approaches in November, now when does your currency expire?
Jan 1 of the following year.
In order to log and count an approach toward instrument recency, what are the requirements for how the approach needs to be conducted?
In the plane
● If in VMC: you must be wearing a view limiting device and the approach must be shot down to mins. Because you’re in VMC and wearing a VLD, a safety pilot is required as
● If in IMC/actual (so you’re not wearing a view limiting device): you must start the approach and remain in IMC until after the FAF. The safety pilot must be instrument rated and current, as he will be the acting PIC.
In the sim:
● Full approach needs to occur in IMC down to mins.
Let’s say your IRA currency is about to expire. Can you take a plane up by yourself (so this is a solo flight) in clear-sky VMC weather like today, put a hood on, shoot 6 approaches/hold/track, log it all, and be current
No, you need a safety pilot any time you’re in Vmc wearing a view limiting device.
What qualifications must the safety pilot have?
Must be rated in category and class and hold a current medical if acting as PIC, which is generally the expectation. (Everyone leaves off the medical part.)
What additional qualifications do your safety pilot and aircraft need to have if you are going to regain currency while flying in actual on an IFR flight plan?
SP needs to be IRA current and the plane needs to be IFR certified/equipped. The SP will need to act as PIC on this flight.
Show me in this logbook how you would log an instrument currency flight with a safety pilot. We’ll say you shot the GPS23 and VOR/DME5 into P08 and John Doe was your safety pilot. It was a 2.0 flight and you were under the hood for 1.5.
The part that trips students up: simply write “John Doe - SP” in the remarks section. You could also write something like, “Holding, intercepting, and tracking per 61.57” in the remarks section. Also, yes the pilot flying can log PIC (for the entire flight), so 2.0. The safety pilot can log PIC for the time that the PF is wearing a view limiting device IF the safety pilot had agreed to act as PIC beforehand. Good article on when you can logging PIC: https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/field_offices/fsdo/sdl/local_more/avsafety_program/m edia/LOGGING%20PILOT-IN-COMMAND%20TIME.pdf
Now show me what the safety pilot will log for this flight.
The SP will log 1.5 PIC and write something to the effect of “Safety Pilot for ____” in the remarks.
Are you required to log instrument approaches that you use to establish IRA currency?
YES
Let’s say that you haven’t flown a plane in a few years. Legally, could you do a couple refresher sims, take and pass an IPC in the plane, then start flying around single-pilot IFR?
No, you need a flight review to stay current as a pilot as well.
