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This came up on another forum as well concerning the overnight thing, and if I recall it was mentioned in one of the FAA legal interpretations, but can't find it off hand. If I'm remembering right the number of days didn't (and shouldn't) factor into the equation when determining if a flight was...

Yep I'll be alone. Looking forward to the trip, going TPF -> SSI (lunch) -> HXD (beach, dinner, overnight) -> TPF. Haven't been to either of those airports and figured I'd live the life of luxury one last time in Hilton Head before I live the poverty life as a pilot.

Good question...I'll have to check again, would be the easiest solution. Not a bad idea at all, thanks for the suggestion. Only problem would be fitting it in my flight bag. One that goes flat might fit better, I'll have to see. This is great too, thanks!

Prob stupid question, but having to jump between multiple rental planes, it always seems like a funnel is nowhere to be found when you need one. Or if you ask a line guy at w/e random airport they always pull out some rusty or dirty funnel ugh (maybe its just me?). Are there any tricks of the...

"One cross-country flight of not less than 300 nautical miles total distance, with landings at a minimum of three points, one of which is a straight-line distance of at least 250 nautical miles from the original departure point." For the above in bold, just curious if a flight starting at point...

I see your point, however it just seems a bit off that filing an IFR flight plan could prevent someone from logging approaches. If the weather isn't necessarily down around the FAF inbound then I can't log the approach. If the foggles were then put on, then I'd expect a safety pilot to be there...

I think so, one person is practicing simulated instrument conditions with the hood on. I'll also add 91.113b states: "When weather conditions permit, regardless of whether an operation is conducted under instrument flight rules or visual flight rules, vigilance shall be maintained by each...

I think you misread, or maybe I didn't explain it well enough. This is just two guys instrument rated doing the same foggle stuff as on a VFR day only now its IFR or rather IMC conditions. One person is under the hood, the other is...'looking outside'.

Not saying your wrong, but could you tell me where the regs state anything about the visual part. I'm just seeing "simulated instrument flight" which would imply a hood, but the conditions outside aren't mentioned.

I'm not sure what regulation that is

I saw that too, and it seems as though both would be able to log PIC. I just want to be sure that the IFR flight plan or IMC doesn't have any impact on "under the hood" and the need for a safety pilot.

Lol, I just read your "The definitive PIC thread", but I may be reading it wrong...

So I just want to make sure I'm interpreting the regs correctly for this one: There are two instrument rated pilots (both current, have medical, etc) looking to get some practice approaches in, in weather that will often go between VMC and IMC. Because of this an IFR flight plan will be filed...

I recommend Treasure Coast Air. I've only been there once, but the manager (I think Michael?) was very welcoming and the FBO had a nice relaxed beachy vibe. It was nice hanging out on the back deck sofa for a bit and talking to him about his sea plane operation. It's also in sort of a nice...

We use this thing: Seems to both calm him and maybe block some of the noise. Easy to get on and off too. Normal headset a little too big :)

Thanks for all the input everyone, sounds like it should all count. In the same vein do you think the long xc required during the instrument training would also count for this: (Edit: The first leg of the IFR xc flight I did was over 100nm) "One 2-hour cross country flight in a single engine...

Yea that's my fault for not really reading into the commercial regs ahead of time to plan accordingly. I could have ensured some of the stuff we did was notated appropriately for both.

I start my commercial training soon and have been getting my logbook in order to see what I specifically need to knock out per the regs. The one regulation that has me hung up is the: "Ten hours of instrument training using a view-limiting device including attitude instrument flying, partial...

Probably 30 seconds to a minute. I figured they were handling multiple frequencies so didn't mind, but when they did answer it was as if I was the first person to ever use it haha. "Wait who is this, what do you need?". That kind of thing.

Recently just got my IFR rating and looking to start taking as many flights as I can in the system to gain some experience. Have a flight planned this weekend and the weather looks to be decent VFR with possibly low clouds along the route. The airport I fly out of is uncontrolled, but has a...