"Judah" wrote in message
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But it doesn't specify anything in (1) or (2) that limits it to currency
in a
jet certified for 2 crewmembers. It just says that if you want to fly a
mission for the purpose of being sole manipulator of the controls to
regain
currency, you can be PIC of a plane in day VFR or IFR provided you're not
carrying anything aboard that is not necessary for the conduct of the
flight.

As far as I can tell, that would mean that anytime you are out of
currency,
you can't count a flight with passengers or non-required crewmembers
toward
currency. If you are current, however, and take off and land with
passengers,
crewmembers, packages, dogs, or elephants on the plane, you can count it.
But
once you come out of currency, section (2) applies...


61.57 (a) (2) says:

For the purpose of meeting the requirements of paragraph (A) (1) of this
section, a person *MAY* act as pilot in command of an aircraft under day VFR
or day IFR, provided no persons or property are carried on board the
aircraft, other than those necessary for the conduct of the flight.

This is something someone *MAY* do to satisfy (a)(1), not something someone
*MUST* due to satisfy (a)(1). If it said *MUST* due, every 89 days, even
pilots that flew passengers daily, would have to empty their aircraft and go
shoot 3 T&Ls.

This just give the pilot the right to hop in his empty plane and go get
current of he needs to. But it in no way limits him to this method. As long
as he has 3 legally obtained T&Ls in the past 90, he is good to go.