On Jun 25, 3:33 am, Judah wrote:
Bertie the Bunyip wrote in news:Xns995A219B0F554****upropeeh@
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Judah wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote in
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Nope, but a good one I sure never would have thought of.
No, I was giving instrument instruction to a guy who had a 185 on
floats. We would do an approach into the airport near the lake where
he parked the thing and then divert from minimums over to the lake.
He did most of his instrument training like this.

If you aren't rated in the plane, how can you instruct in it? Or even
be a safety pilot?

A, it's called an airplane.

"plane" Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House,
Inc.http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/plane(accessed: June 24,
2007).
-noun
5. Aeronautics. a. an airplane or a hydroplane: to take a plane to Dallas.


For the great unwashed maybe, but not for a pilot, net nanny.





B. I only instucted him in instrument flight, so the boots didn't matter
since inever landed it.

"§ 91.109 Flight instruction; Simulated instrument flight and
certain flight tests. ...
(b) No person may operate a civil aircraft in simulated instrument
flight unless-

(1) The other control seat is occupied by a safety pilot who possesses
at least a private pilot certificate with category and class ratings
appropriate to the aircraft being flown."

Do you have category and class ratings appropriate to a Cessna 185
with floats?

Nope, but the FAA decided it was legit so we did it.

I highly suspect that the entire FAA didn't decide it was legit, in
contrast to the paragraph I quoted earlier. I rather suspect that some guy
who works at a FSDO gave you his opinion over the phone, and had you been
caught in the act by another guy from another FSDO (or maybe even the same
FSDO), who happened to be a hardass, he might not have been so lenient.

As I have demonstrated above, one can find a source to say nearly anything,

You've not demonstrated anything. I got approval, because it seemed so
gray.


but that doesn't make it accurate. In the relatively few years that I have
been involved in aviation, I have found this to be especially true with
respect to piloting, FAA regulations, and Aerodynamics.

There is more folklore being spewed about aviation than all the old wives
tales ever conceived, let alone spoken.- Hide quoted text -


Not an old wives tale. I did it and it was legal, period.

I also could have taught in a multi engine airplane with no multi-
engine instructor's rating (never arose) and I know of two guys who
flew a twin with no licence whatsoever. And they broke no law. And I
can probe that the FAA had no trouble with them either.


Fjukkwit.



Bertie