Let's hear your take on the regs on this.
Pilot wants me to be safety pilot for him. Private, working on his IFR. Me, I'm IFR rated and current private.
Our home field usually is fog in the morning, then clears later in the morning. Typical coastal CA summer weather. So with his CFII along, he has been going out IFR, and then working on whatever.
So, legally, if I go along, and he and I are the only ones in the plane. If we need to get on top, do I have to fly through the fog before we cancel? Or can he do it?
I'd be inclined to say since I'm the only one rated for it, I'd have to do any IMC flying. Right? And as safety pilot, would be my job to keep him clear of any weather that brough him out of VFR.
Is this correct, or is there a way a non-IFR rated pilot can legally do, an approach for example, and touch IMC without a CFII there?
Seems to me it would be a bad on my ticket if I allowed it to happen by not doing the safety part of the safety pilot job.
So if we go 2.0 hours TT out for a flight. And touch IMC for .1 on the way out, and .1 on the way back, he would log: 1.8 for the time he is in control for what he is rated (VFR flying), and I'd fly the .2 of IMC time and log that, and I'd also be able to log whatever other time (say the 1.8 or a little less if the hood is off for a landing) as safety pilot of course.
Clear as mud? Any comments?
Josh
Pilot wants me to be safety pilot for him. Private, working on his IFR. Me, I'm IFR rated and current private.
Our home field usually is fog in the morning, then clears later in the morning. Typical coastal CA summer weather. So with his CFII along, he has been going out IFR, and then working on whatever.
So, legally, if I go along, and he and I are the only ones in the plane. If we need to get on top, do I have to fly through the fog before we cancel? Or can he do it?
I'd be inclined to say since I'm the only one rated for it, I'd have to do any IMC flying. Right? And as safety pilot, would be my job to keep him clear of any weather that brough him out of VFR.
Is this correct, or is there a way a non-IFR rated pilot can legally do, an approach for example, and touch IMC without a CFII there?
Seems to me it would be a bad on my ticket if I allowed it to happen by not doing the safety part of the safety pilot job.
So if we go 2.0 hours TT out for a flight. And touch IMC for .1 on the way out, and .1 on the way back, he would log: 1.8 for the time he is in control for what he is rated (VFR flying), and I'd fly the .2 of IMC time and log that, and I'd also be able to log whatever other time (say the 1.8 or a little less if the hood is off for a landing) as safety pilot of course.
Clear as mud? Any comments?
Josh