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Do Landings in a Simulator Count Towards Landing Currency? (FAA in the USA)
Yes, as long as the simulator is properly certified (to level B,C,or D) you can do your takeoffs and landings to regain currency.
Long haul airline pilots frequently have trouble staying current for ...
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How many holds to be IR current?
According to this AOPA article, quoting the FAA person who actually wrote 61.57, it’s one hold:
When paragraph 61.57(c)(1)(ii) [i.e., "Holding procedures"] was written it was not intended ...
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Do Landings in a Simulator Count Towards Landing Currency? (FAA in the USA)
It can be done. As mentioned here:
(2) The takeoffs and landings required by paragraph (b)(1) of this
section may be accomplished in a flight simulator that is—
(i) Approved by the ...
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Can I bring a person with me while getting landing current if they're a licensed, current pilot?
As long as you are not the legal pilot in command you can do what you want. This means the other pilot has to be willing to act as the legal pilot in command on this flight.
61.57(a) General ...
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Should 3 takeoffs and landings to stay day current be solo?
Yes you can count that time as PIC and towards this currency requirement.
The regulation requires that you are the only one who moved the flight controls during takeoff and landing. This means you ...
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Is it permissible to log an instrument approach for purposes of IFR currency in a non-IFR certified aircraft?
As long as you remain VFR then the equipment requirements for the airplane and the flight are VFR.
§61.57 says “Within the 6 calendar months preceding the month of the flight, that person performed ...
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How do airline pilots maintain night currency?
The night currency requirements are in 14 CFR 61.57, which does provide exceptions for pilots flying for an air carrier:
Except as provided in paragraph (e) of this section, no person may act
as ...
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Is a biennial flight review valid for any airplane category?
Yes. 61.56(c)(1) calls for "an aircraft for which that pilot is rated." The reg does not require a review for each category/class.
And as further confirmation, AOPA's Pilot's Guide to the Flight ...
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Do takeoffs and landings in a Pilatus PC-12 count for currency in a Piper Archer?
Category: Yes, both are "airplanes" as opposed to rotorcraft or gliders.
Class: Yes, both are single engine land planes, as opposed to multi-engined or sea planes.
Type: Yes, neither aircraft ...
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Is it appropriate (legal) to request practice instrument approaches in IMC?
Certainly you can request practice approaches in IMC on an IFR flight plan. ATC will accommodate aircraft on a first come, first served basis. It is legal, and appropriate if ATC can accommodate it ...
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What are the weather requirements to log an instrument approach?
The FAA has recently come out with an InFO 15012 describing in detail what constitutes a loggable approach.
Logging Instrument Approach Procedures
Portions of InFo 15012
Discussion: Section 61.57(...
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Is it possible to log IFR currency in a flight simulator without an instructor?
Recent changes to the rules just took effect.
https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2018/june/27/faa-cuts-cost-of-training-proficiency
14 CFR §61.51 Pilot logbooks. (g) Logging ...
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If I'm instrument current in an ASEL, am I also considered current in an AMEL?
Yes, you maintain instrument currency by category, not class. 61.57(c) only mentions class in the glider-specific requirements in (c)(3). The FAA doesn't mention it at all in related legal ...
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Can a Student Pilot credit night takeoffs and landings towards meeting FAR 61.57 night passenger carrying requirements once becoming a PPL?
Yes, with the caveat that the flight is in the same category and class. Recent experience isn’t invalidated by the change in certificate. 61.57 (b) has two requirements listed in sub paragraphs:
(i) ...
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What currency requirements exist specifically for Commercial and ATP pilots that a Private pilot wouldn't know about?
Autoland currency
If equipped with autoland, the flight crew will have some requirement to use the system, or else autoland operation in real CAT III weather, where autoland is required, will be ...
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Is it true that as of 2014, flight reviews are waived for current flight instructors under FAA rules?
It is false.
14 CFR §61.56(f) states:
A person who holds a flight instructor certificate and who has, within
the period specified in paragraph (c) of this section, satisfactorily
completed a ...
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Is it appropriate (legal) to request practice instrument approaches in IMC?
Approaches in actual IMC aren't really "practice": you're an IFR aircraft doing IFR stuff, which just happens to be multiple instrument approaches. It isn't anything to be ashamed of - everyone in ...
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Must a CFII be instrument current to provide instrument training?
The requirements for providing instrument instruction are in 14 CFR 61.195(c) and they don't mention currency at all. There are also various FAA legal interpretations on whether or not CFIs (not CFIIs)...
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Initial six calendar months of instrument currency
FAR 61.57 (d) (1) says that you may "reestablish instrument currency" by completing an Instrument Proficiency Check.
Also, here is an FAA legal interpretation that says that the Instrument ...
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The recording of takeoffs and landings in a logbook, particularly in the context of multipilot operations?
See EU FCL.050.
“column 8: indicate the number of landings performed as pilot flying by day or night;”
https://www.easa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/dfu/Part-FCL.pdf#page39
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Can a view limiting device be used in an aircraft requiring two pilots?
There is no regulation against doing so provided that the third person in the cockpit is type rated for PIC privileges on the aircraft and has a waiver from the FAA to operate the aircraft as a single ...
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Should 3 takeoffs and landings to stay day current be solo?
The other answers are correct. The regulations do not require you to be solo in order to log PIC time or the landings for the currency. The only problem would arise would be if you are already outside ...
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Does a hold-entry count as a hold for instrument currency?
The entry of a hold is sufficient for the holding procedures task on the instrument rating practical test in the US and for execution of an instrument approach procedure that begins with a hold, so it ...
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Does a hold-entry count as a hold for instrument currency?
Think about it this way: when do you report established in the hold?
Short answer: there isn't a clear definition of what "established" means with respect to a hold. One reports entering ...
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The recording of takeoffs and landings in a logbook, particularly in the context of multipilot operations?
Your logbook must contain enough information to determine whether you meet the relevant recency requirements of your certificate.
The wording of this is not super clear in EASA regulations. From FCL....
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Can I bring a person with me while getting landing current if they're a licensed, current pilot?
I don't think it's that ambiguous. The kicker in your requirementsis the "log PIC time" part...
CFR 61.57
(a) General experience.
(1) Except as provided in paragraph (e) of this section, no ...
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Is it appropriate (legal) to request practice instrument approaches in IMC?
If you have an instrument rating or are under training from an IR rated instructor then there's no problem asking for as many instrument approaches as you want. It's good training to fly in real IR ...
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Is it appropriate (legal) to request practice instrument approaches in IMC?
There is no problem as long as you tell ATC your intentions.
If you request an “approach”, they expect you to make a full stop. If you’re IFR, they will protect the miss just in case, but they’re not ...
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Is it appropriate (legal) to request practice instrument approaches in IMC?
They absolutely will let you fly practice instrument approaches in IMC. You will have to be an instrument rated pilot with an IFR equipped aircraft and file a local IFR flight plan with your intended ...
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What qualifies as a "takeoff" and "landing" in currency requirements?
There's more than enough room to land to a full stop, take off, climb to (e.g. 50 feet AGL), then immediately land again to a full stop without needing to go around the pattern.
50 feet is completely ...
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