The The Villages Villages Aviation Aviation Club Club Safety Brief February 2016 Keeping Current
IFR CURRENCY You are considered IFR current if you have: completed 6 instrument approaches holding procedures Intercepting and tracking procedures within the preceding 6 calendar months. If not, you have the next 6 calendar months to complete the same requirements with an approved safety pilot
What is a Loggable Instrument Approach? See InFO 15012
You are considered IFR current if you have: completed 6 instrument approaches holding procedures IFR CURRENCY Review Intercepting and tracking procedures within the preceding 6 calendar months. If not, you have the next 6 calendar months to complete the same requirements with an approved safety pilot.
What is an.. approved safety pilot? Can t be just anybody
FAR 91.109(c) It is FAR 91.109(c) that specifically imposes the requirement that a safety pilot be on board an aircraft being operated in simulated instrument flight supplement to the see-and-avoid (FAR 91.113(b) He/she must be a qualified pilot primarily to help see and avoid other aircraft. FAR 1.1 defines a flight crewmember as a pilot assigned to perform a duty in an aircraft during flight time.
FAR 91.109(c), tells us the SP must be a pilot. FAR 91.109(c)(1) requires that the safety pilot must hold at least a private pilot certificate, with category and class ratings appropriate to the aircraft being flown. FAR 91.109[b][3][i]) The safety pilot determines the flight can be conducted safely FAR 61.3(c) no person may act in any capacity as a required pilot flight crewmember under an FAA-issued pilot certificate unless he or she holds a current appropriate airman medical certificate.
Also.. A safety pilot does not have to have an instrument rating if the flight is being conducted under the visual flight rules. However, if operated under instrument flight rules, even in VFR conditions, whoever is acting as pilot in command of the flight must hold an instrument rating If a pilot who is not instrument rated is flying an aircraft IFR under a hood simulating instrument conditions, the safety pilot must hold an instrument rating. If the pilot under the hood is instrument rated and acting as pilot in command, even though the flight is IFR, the safety pilot is not required to have an instrument rating or be instrument current.
What about recent experience and flight review requirements? The pilot in command must meet these requirements. If the safety pilot is not pilot in command, the safety pilot does not have to have this recent experience.
A few other requirements that relate to the safety pilot The aircraft must be equipped with fully functioning dual controls The safety pilot must occupy a control position so as to be able to manipulate the controls.
And.. The safety pilot must have adequate vision forward and to each side of the aircraft
Log Book Requirements If the pilot under the hood is logging time to meet any aeronautical experience or training requirements, the name of the safety pilot must be entered into the pilot s logbook along with the usual logbook entries No other identification of the safety pilot is needed other than his or her name. The safety pilot has no similar logging requirement.
Logging Time: Safety Pilot Pilot-in-command time may be logged if acting as PIC. Second-in-command time may be logged if not acting as PIC. Usually the case if the safety pilot cannot act as PIC. FAR 61.51(f)(2) allows a pilot to log all flight time under which more than one pilot is required by the regulations (91.109[b]) under which the flight is conducted. Other considerations Summary of logging PIC. Both pilots may log PIC time if the safety pilot is the acting pilot in command. FAR 61.51(e) allows both the sole manipulator of the controls and the acting PIC to log PIC time. Acting as PIC. The safety pilot should not take the role as acting PIC lightly. Both pilots should include in their logbook the name of the other pilot.
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