IFR Currency

Can one do the six approaches and holding in VFR to maintain currency
without a view-limiting device or a safety pilot?

"Gregory Kryspin" wrote in message
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Can one do the six approaches and holding in VFR to maintain currency
without a view-limiting device or a safety pilot?

Only if you're IFR in IMC (or using an approved simulator with a CFI).

--Gary

For personal currency, yes, that's a great idea. However, it doesn't
meet the FAA currency requirements.

-Robert

Can one do the six approaches and holding in VFR to maintain currency
without a view-limiting device or a safety pilot?

What does 61.57 say:
http://tinyurl.com/crdgn

I see: "...performed and logged under actual or simulated instrument
conditions..."

I read that as in IMC, "under the hood" with a safety pilot, or
possibly in a simulator with a CFII.
-harry

Robert M. Gary wrote:
For personal currency, yes, that's a great idea. However, it doesn't
meet the FAA currency requirements.

-Robert

I say NO for personal currency. Your focus without a safety needs to be
completely outside. No good for building any form of IMC ontrol scan and
awareness.

Robert M. Gary wrote:

For personal currency, yes, that's a great idea. However, it doesn't
meet the FAA currency requirements.

-Robert

I say NO for personal currency. Your focus without a safety pilot needs
to be completely outside. No good for building are practicing any form
of IMC control scan and awareness.

On 01/30/06 17:27, BillJ wrote:
Robert M. Gary wrote:
For personal currency, yes, that's a great idea. However, it doesn't
meet the FAA currency requirements.

-Robert

I say NO for personal currency. Your focus without a safety needs to be
completely outside. No good for building any form of IMC ontrol scan and
awareness.

Are you saying that you won't even intercept and track a VOR radial?

That seems a bit extreme...

In any event, I had asked the question about flying an ILS (for example)
in visual conditions while single pilot, and how I should deal with the
distractions from the visual search for other airplanes by my instrument
scan, and was told that the instrument scan is really a very small part
of the effort when you can manage the attitude of the airplane by outside
visual reference.

So I think it's fine. As Robert said, though - it doesn't count toward
currency.

--
Mark Hansen, PP-ASEL, Instrument Airplane
Cal Aggie Flying Farmers
Sacramento, CA

BillJ wrote:
Robert M. Gary wrote:

For personal currency, yes, that's a great idea. However, it doesn't
meet the FAA currency requirements.

-Robert

I say NO for personal currency. Your focus without a safety pilot needs
to be completely outside. No good for building are practicing any form
of IMC control scan and awareness.

I still think there's value for learning/practicing procedures. For example,
I've done some of this while learning a new piece of avionics.

Dave

No good for building any form of IMC ontrol scan and awareness.

But good for keeping fresh on procedures. Thinking about hold entry
procedures, identing ratios, etc. Let's face it, how often do most of
us even turn on VORs on during VMC weather nowadays.

-Robert, CFI

I read that as in IMC, "under the hood" with a safety pilot, or
possibly in a simulator with a CFII.

Or in a simulator with an IGI.

-Robert