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Two pilots flying on long flights
Suppose you're PIC with a pilot friend on a long flight. You decide
that to save time, one of you can nap while the other continues the flight. The aircraft requires only one pilot. Is this legal? In particular, can the pilot in command sleep during the flight? Or does the active pilot become the pilot in command while the other pilot sleeps? Does anyone actually do this on long flights? I suppose the need for a toilet stop might make it a rare situation. In cars, though, I know that it's perfectly common for several drivers to share driving duties, with one napping while the other drives. Along the same lines ... what is the major limiting factor on range and flight duration for small GA planes? Is it fuel? The availability of suitable weather along one's route? The need to land and find a restroom or sleep? -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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Two pilots flying on long flights
I have done it a couple of times flying from Southern Ca. to San Antonio
Texas and back in one day. That is a lot of Flying. "Mxsmanic" wrote in message ... Suppose you're PIC with a pilot friend on a long flight. You decide that to save time, one of you can nap while the other continues the flight. The aircraft requires only one pilot. Is this legal? In particular, can the pilot in command sleep during the flight? Or does the active pilot become the pilot in command while the other pilot sleeps? Does anyone actually do this on long flights? I suppose the need for a toilet stop might make it a rare situation. In cars, though, I know that it's perfectly common for several drivers to share driving duties, with one napping while the other drives. Along the same lines ... what is the major limiting factor on range and flight duration for small GA planes? Is it fuel? The availability of suitable weather along one's route? The need to land and find a restroom or sleep? -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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Two pilots flying on long flights
On Sat, 09 Dec 2006 23:01:53 +0100, Mxsmanic wrote:
Suppose you're PIC with a pilot friend on a long flight. You decide that to save time, one of you can nap while the other continues the flight. The aircraft requires only one pilot. Is this legal? In particular, can the pilot in command sleep during the flight? Or does the active pilot become the pilot in command while the other pilot sleeps? The PIC is the licensed pilot that the two of you agree will be the one in charge for that flight (or flight segment). As far as I know, there is no regulation preventing the PIC from napping. However, under the circumstances you describe (non-instructional flight; one pilot required), the napping (or non-flying) PIC will NOT be able to log PIC time. The only person legal to log PIC time would be the pilot flying (manipulating the controls) even if that person were not ACTING as PIC. The "real" PIC could only log time, as a non-flying pilot, if two pilots were required for the flight. (The FAA in their wisdom, differentiates the concept of ACTING as PIC from that of LOGGING PIC time). Does anyone actually do this on long flights? Yes I suppose the need for a toilet stop might make it a rare situation. It can be a limiting factor. Although large bladders and/or various on board containers can mitigate this. In cars, though, I know that it's perfectly common for several drivers to share driving duties, with one napping while the other drives. Along the same lines ... what is the major limiting factor on range and flight duration for small GA planes? For me, it's bladder capacity, and the desire to get out and stretch. Is it fuel? The availability of suitable weather along one's route? The need to land and find a restroom or sleep? There was a dermatologist who circumnavigated the world in his 1965 Mooney M20E. His last leg was 25 hours from Hawaii to Des Moines. --ron |
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Two pilots flying on long flights
Ron Rosenfeld writes:
There was a dermatologist who circumnavigated the world in his 1965 Mooney M20E. His last leg was 25 hours from Hawaii to Des Moines. I presume he ate a low-fiber diet for a few days in advance (as the early astronauts did). -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail. |
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