61.57(a) is clearly ONLY for carrying passengers.

with a flight review in gliders, you can solo that King Air 350 all you want. you can even do 3 touch and goes, fill it with passengers, and take them on a nice jaunt.

--bob


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Well, sort of. Now that this pilot has his glider add on and therefore re-started his flight review 2 year cycle, he now has to comply with 61.57(a).. It clearly states, "The required [3] takeoffs and landings were performed in an aircraft of the same category, class, and type . . . ." This hypothetical King Air and glider are different categories (see Part 1, "catagory (1), examples"). Three landings in a glider does not make one current in airplanes or vice versa for that matter.