SpiceWeasel
Tre Kronor
Ok here are two seperate questions about logging flight time.....
1st, I can log night time as sunset to sunrise? I'm not using it for currency, don't need to, just logging night time. (As opposed to the 1 hr after evening civil twilight to 1 hour prior to morning civil twilight for landings).
2, and this just piqued my interest as something I've talked about before. What can be logged as instrument time "actual"?
According to 61.51
This means to me, as long as I'm not looking outside, I'm on an instrument flight plan, etc., I can technically log all of that time as actual? Where is the requirement that says actual can ONLY be logged in the clouds, because that's how I was taught at the great school of the west.... ERAU. Under my lowly interpretation, if you wanted to, you *could* do it during the day if you weren't looking outside. At night, I don't see why you couldn't, as a lot of the places I flew before had little to no ground lighting; and even so the illusions could take over in a major way.
Question 1 is more important for me since I just want to get a good idea of how much night flying I've done (and I can go back after the fact and figure out when it was night time), vs instrument flight. Word on the street is that you can take 10% of your 121 time and count that as "actual"..... legal, probably not, but conservative and won't put you over what you've actually done.... sure...
anic:
1st, I can log night time as sunset to sunrise? I'm not using it for currency, don't need to, just logging night time. (As opposed to the 1 hr after evening civil twilight to 1 hour prior to morning civil twilight for landings).
2, and this just piqued my interest as something I've talked about before. What can be logged as instrument time "actual"?
According to 61.51
(g) Logging instrument flight time. (1) A person may log instrument time only for that flight time when the person operates the aircraft solely by reference to instruments under actual or simulated instrument flight conditions.
This means to me, as long as I'm not looking outside, I'm on an instrument flight plan, etc., I can technically log all of that time as actual? Where is the requirement that says actual can ONLY be logged in the clouds, because that's how I was taught at the great school of the west.... ERAU. Under my lowly interpretation, if you wanted to, you *could* do it during the day if you weren't looking outside. At night, I don't see why you couldn't, as a lot of the places I flew before had little to no ground lighting; and even so the illusions could take over in a major way.
Question 1 is more important for me since I just want to get a good idea of how much night flying I've done (and I can go back after the fact and figure out when it was night time), vs instrument flight. Word on the street is that you can take 10% of your 121 time and count that as "actual"..... legal, probably not, but conservative and won't put you over what you've actually done.... sure...
anic: