IFR Checkride in Actual?

[BenWlson]

Read the rest of 61.47:
(c) "Notwithstanding the type of aircraft used during the practical test, the applicant and examiner are not subject to the requirements or limitations for the carriage of passengers that are specified in this chapter."

That is the paragraph which relieves the student pilot of the limitation of carrying passengers, which the DPE is; a passenger.

That does not releive the Private non-instrument rated applicant of having an instrument rating to file IFR. No matter what some DPE's do. It is still illegal.

I stand corrected... well, actually I'm sitting, but you get my drift.

 

[MFT1Air]

Why would the examiner have to agree to be PIC? What about the student pilot going for his private checkride? That flight is the first PIC flight for the student with a passenger. Same thing for the private pilot going for a checkride in IMC for his instrument rating. It is the private pilot's first flight as PIC in IFR and/or IMC.

My thought? Because your aviation prowess is going to get the both of you killed. That's one reason. Inherent in the process is the fact the flight is an examination . . .something similar to a "test?" Those "semantics" were made clear to me prior to my going up for my checkride.

Hypothetically speaking, if a pilot going on a checkride makes it clear to the examiner they will not relinquish control/PIC of the aircraft, do you think there'll be a flight?

 

[taseal]

when we do ours, its filed, so you can go actual.

just don't do that common mistake, and start turning left! (I always wondered why)