It drives me a little crazy that the Code of Federal Aviation Regulations is so vague on so many crucially important points.
Logging Instrument Approaches for Currency
Key Takeaways:
- FAA regulations are often vague on important points, requiring "legal interpretations" from the agency to clarify requirements for pilots, such as sharing flight costs or logging instrument approaches.
- For logging instrument approaches in simulated conditions for currency, pilots must remain "under the hood" until the Decision Altitude (DA) or Minimum Descent Height (MDH).
- In actual instrument conditions, an approach counts if the pilot is in Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC) from the start until passing the Final Approach Fix (FAF), even if breaking out before reaching DA or MDH.
- Regardless of actual or simulated conditions, all segments of the Instrument Approach Procedure (IAP) except the missed approach must be flown for it to count towards instrument currency.
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