December 21st, 2006, 19:27
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| Old Skool
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Nashville
Posts: 6,000
|  Re: Side question on safety pilot issue
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Originally Posted by MidlifeFlyer  Are they on a flight that's IFR?
You can do practice approaches without being on an IFR flight plan or operating under instrument flight rules. Most are probably done that way.
But, Chinook, I think you're wrong about the "rules." If they are in fact flying under instrument flight rules, then the safety pilot cannot log PIC unless the safety pilot is instrument rated. That's because, under 61.51(e), in order to log PIC as a safety pilot, the safety pilot must be acting as PIC. Can't do that under IFR without an instrument rating.
(I not even sure a pilot can =act= as a safety pilot at all under IFR without an instrument rating since not only can he not act as PIC, but 61.63(a) says he can't act as SIC either) | Interesting. I never realized that... seems a little convoluted, but I get it.
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