Logging Actual Instrument Time Even Without Instrument Rating
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- In this video I describe a few ways that a private pilot can log actual instrument time without even holding an instrument rating.
Do you have to have an instrument rating to log actual instrument flight time? Not necessarily. I present two scenarios where a certificated private pilot can log actual instrument time.
1) Acting as sole manipulator of the controls in IMC instrument meteorological conditions with another qualified pilot acting as PIC pilot in command.
2) While flying by sole reference to the instrument in AIC actual instrument conditions while in VMC visual meteorological conditions.
Scenario 2 can happen on a moonless night over the ocean, large lakes, uninhabited/unlit terrain, or in between cloud layers.
Links to referenced documents from the FAA:
www.faa.gov/ab...
www.ecfr.gov/c...
www.offhand.org...
Good information. Recommend looking into the camera. Just looks like you were talking to someone behind me.
Was looking for exactly this. Thanks for putting the links in the description.
good job mate
Your explanation is pretty much spot-on - especially about flying into the 'black-hole' over water. I do, however, question your decision to fly from Florida over the water, single engine, at night. I have been flying since the early 1980's and I would not even consider that in a single engine piston plane. I've had an engine failure in a Mooney, by the way, but it was daylight, and in a familiar area. Everyone has personal minimums that they need to set, and some are not based on skill. By the way, I do not mean to sound critical of your flying. But it certainly isn't fair to any passengers that might be aboard, and don't fully understand the risks of that flight. I do enjoy your channel and the topics that you choose. Blue skies.
I know. I've given it a lot of thought. Truth is the most dangerous engine failure is after takeoff. We take this chance on every single flight regardless of time of day or conditions. Single pilot IFR over terrain even back home has its risks just the same.
You're making an excellent point, especially about it being night. That said, I'd rather fly over open water than many parts of inland Florida, including swamps and suburban areas, or in other states with dense forests or mountains. Believe ditching in relatively calm water is more survival than either dense forest or mountains.
Unfortunately for those of us in Hawaii, the only way to get private and commercial pilot certificates is to fly over the ocean at night in single engine airplanes.