Staying IFR current in a foreing country

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LV-ARG

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Im an FAA Instrument rated pilot but I'm currently living in Argentina. I was wondering if I could stay IFR current by flying approaches, holds, intercepting and tracking radials down here on airplanes which are not "N" registered.

Another issue is that it has been over 6 calendar months since the last time I flew an approach, hence I must undergo an instrument proficiency check. Do you think I could become IFR current again if I somehow managed to find a current FAA CFII in argentina and asked him to give me the proficiency check on an FTD/airplane? I´m a CFII myslef, dont know if that makes any difference.
 
You don't need an IPC yet. Just need to take a safety pilot with you. If you go a year w/out getting IFR current, then you need the IPC.

As for the AR part, not sure.
 
Nothing in the currency requirements tht says the approaches have to be done in the US or in US registered aircraft.
 
highspeed said:
You don't need an IPC yet. Just need to take a safety pilot with you. If you go a year w/out getting IFR current, then you need the IPC.

As for the AR part, not sure.
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You are absolutely right, I misread the regulation.

ps. on the title it should read foreign instead of foreing.
 
Should I call an FSDO to get an official answer or the FAA headquarters in Oklahoma? I cant find the telephone number for the later one.
 
LV-ARG said:
Im an FAA Instrument rated pilot but I'm currently living in Argentina. I was wondering if I could stay IFR current by flying approaches, holds, intercepting and tracking radials down here on airplanes which are not "N" registered.

Another issue is that it has been over 6 calendar months since the last time I flew an approach, hence I must undergo an instrument proficiency check. Do you think I could become IFR current again if I somehow managed to find a current FAA CFII in argentina and asked him to give me the proficiency check on an FTD/airplane? I´m a CFII myslef, dont know if that makes any difference.
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I'm in the same boat as you, I live in Brazil, the only problem of doing that (IFR currency) is that you have to hold the license for the plane you will be flying. You can't do approaches in an airplane registered in a place where you don't hold a license. I don't know how the regs are in Argentina but here you can't do IFR training if you don't hold at least a private, or you are doing a license validation. To fly IFR and log it, also with a CFI you need to hold the license..

How are the Aeroboeros C :

Alex
 
swisspilot said:
BTW how can you be a CFII and thinking you need an IPC after 6 months?
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it has been a long time since I got my II plus I never had the chance to put it to use. I've been living in Argentina for some time now so my primary concern now are argentine regulations rather than FAA

Regarding the other part of your post. Im also a licensed pilot here in argentina (PPL) (Forgot to include this on initial post). I guess practicing approaches while under the hood with a safety pilot would be ok. Im in the process of obtaining my commercial licence and IFR rating down here based on the FAA certs

I havent seen any aeroboeros other than at some air festival, but I´ve herd they are really great planes
 
LV-ARG said:
it has been a long time since I got my II plus I never had the chance to put it to use. I've been living in Argentina for some time now so my primary concern now are argentine regulations rather than FAA

Regarding the other part of your post. Im also a licensed pilot here in argentina (PPL) (Forgot to include this on initial post). I guess practicing approaches while under the hood with a safety pilot would be ok. Im in the process of obtaining my commercial licence and IFR rating down here based on the FAA certs

I havent seen any aeroboeros other than at some air festival, but I´ve herd they are really great planes
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Our flying club as an Aeroboero 180, but it's grounded it wasn't flown for a while has really low time on the engine, but for ANAC, hangar time counts towards an engine overhaul....would love to fly it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_Boero_AB-180
 
swisspilot said:
I'm in the same boat as you, I live in Brazil, the only problem of doing that (IFR currency) is that you have to hold the license for the plane you will be flying. You can't do approaches in an airplane registered in a place where you don't hold a license. I don't know how the regs are in Argentina but here you can't do IFR training if you don't hold at least a private, or you are doing a license validation. To fly IFR and log it, also with a CFI you need to hold the license..

How are the Aeroboeros C :

Alex
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Are you saying that, in Brazil, unless you hold a Brazilian license, the pilot in command of the flight can't let you fly some approaches? That would be very different than in the states where a PIC could let an 8 year old fly approaches.

If that's true, we should be thankful about being in the US where they don't regulate down to that level until you at least are flying for hire.
 
MidlifeFlyer said:
Are you saying that, in Brazil, unless you hold a Brazilian license, the pilot in command of the flight can't let you fly some approaches? That would be very different than in the states where a PIC could let an 8 year old fly approaches.

If that's true, we should be thankful about being in the US where they don't regulate down to that level until you at least are flying for hire.
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Here, you can't take instruction unless you are a member of the flying club, hold a medical, did the regulation test, passed the PPL written exams and the airplane ground school.

If you don't have any of this, you can only hire a pilot for a sightseeing flight, which costs about twice as much as an hour of instruction, by law you are not allowed to touch the controls or log any kind of hours.

Most training aircrafts are owned by ANAC, which is the local FAA, the Flight school just have to take care of them....

There are really few private owners of small GA airplanes, most of them are Light sports.

There is not a single flight school that will rent you an airplane to fly around, they maybe let you take it around the pattern to stay current...

It's amazing how the Aviation authorities suck here...
working with ANAC it's a mess, you can't do anything by mail or on-line, you have to show up at their office, and sometimes the guy you need to talk to is not even there, they will never give you direct numbers, so you can't call them easy. 99% of the time the person that is gonna talk to you is the wrong one and will tell you the wrong stuff......it's amazing

I applied for a Thai pilot license based on my FAA (I'm planning of doing some flying in Thailand,Laos,Vietnam and Cambodia), I was able to do everything from here, I just had to join a flying club (on-line application) and the guys over there are doing everything for me and in 3 weeks I will have my license, but here in South America peoples that work for the govt really don't wanna do anything...
 
swisspilot said:
It's amazing how the Aviation authorities suck here...
working with ANAC it's a mess, you can't do anything by mail or on-line, you have to show up at their office, and sometimes the guy you need to talk to is not even there, they will never give you direct numbers, so you can't call them easy. 99% of the time the person that is gonna talk to you is the wrong one and will tell you the wrong stuff......it's amazing

I applied for a Thai pilot license based on my FAA (I'm planning of doing some flying in Thailand,Laos,Vietnam and Cambodia), I was able to do everything from here, I just had to join a flying club (on-line application) and the guys over there are doing everything for me and in 3 weeks I will have my license, but here in South America peoples that work for the govt really don't wanna do anything...
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Sounds just like our CAA =/
 
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