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How do you maintain pilot currency?
Maintaining daytime flying currency is pretty easy. All you have to do is have successfully completed three takeoffs and three landings within the past 90 days as the sole pilot in command. These takeoffs and landings should be completed in the same kind of plane that you’re certified to pilot.
Do Siming landings count currency?
Yes, as long as the simulator is properly certified (to level B,C,or D) you can do your takeoffs and landings to regain currency. Long haul airline pilots frequently have trouble staying current for 3 takeoffs and landings in 90 days.
How to maintain night currency in an airplane?
Under the new 61.57 (e) (3), a pilot-in-command can maintain night currency in more than one type airplane if the following requirements are met. 1. Hold a valid commercial pilot certificate with appropriate type ratings for each aircraft the pilot wishes to operate under this alternative, 2. At least 1500 hours total time as a pilot, 3.
What is the night takeoff and landing currency rule?
This rule neither eliminates nor adds requirements to the PIC night takeoff and landing currency requirement of 61.57 (b), but merely provides another alternative means for remaining current in night takeoffs and landings.
Can a turbine powered airplane use night currency?
The alternative means of compliance allows a pilot in command of a turbine-powered airplane (specifically a turbine-powered airplane that is type certificated for more than one pilot crewmember) to meet the PIC night currency requirements for all the applicable airplane types on the PIC’s certificate as long as the following provisions are met:
Why do pilots have to have currency to fly?
Legally he’s permitted to make the approach, but his competence to do it successfully is doubtful. The idea of requiring currency is to ensure that pilots’ skill sets are, at the very minimum, what they were when the pilots earned their certificates or ratings. Staying current is not just mandatory, but it’s also judicious.