Rehack AMEL currency in a Level D sim?

[ChuckMK23]

A question for you FAR sea-lawyers ( that's you @HAL Pilot ). Getting a session with a rated IP in the C-17 Level D sim. Can I use this experience to rehack currency in Airplane Multi Engine Land for day and night landings? (3 of each to a full stop + takeoffs).

 

[HAL Pilot]

A question for you FAR sea-lawyers ( that's you @HAL Pilot ). Getting a session with a rated IP in the C-17 Level D sim. Can I use this experience to rehack currency in Airplane Multi Engine Land for day and night landings? (3 of each to a full stop + takeoffs).

I have no clue for part 91. I haven’t thought about it for years as 121 currency is different.
Sorry

 

[Jim123]

For Part 121 the applicable FAR is 121.439 (90 day rule and how to maintain or regain your currency in the airplane or in the simulator). I don't know if there is an equivalent reg in Part 91 (or 61, which would be the next place I'd look) for airplane vs high fidelity simulator.

For that matter, I don't recall hearing about any other other general reg that would allow for certain sections from 121 to also apply to flights operated under Part 91 by a regular person (i.e. not an airline repo/mx/other flight). That's not to suggest it doesn't exist, just that I've never heard of it.

 

[wink]

Well, for 30+ years I used my airline recurrent training, completed in a level D sim, as my BFR/Flight Review. IF that is legal, then why not the landing currency? We all know once a sim is certified as a level D it can replace all actual airplane training and experience requirements. I have never seen anything that restricts that to Part 121. I don't think I know any airline pilots who went out and got actual BFRs in bug smashers. Then again, I may be a career FAR offender.

 

[HAL Pilot]

Well, for 30+ years I used my airline recurrent training, completed in a level D sim, as my BFR/Flight Review.

I do that too. That is actually in the FARs somewhere.

 

[Griz882]

From the book...


(i) A flight simulator or flight training device may be used to meet the flight review requirements of this section subject to the following conditions:

(1) The flight simulator or flight training device must be used in accordance with an approved course conducted by a training center certificated under part 142 of this chapter.

(2) Unless the flight review is undertaken in a flight simulator that is approved for landings, the applicant must meet the takeoff and landing requirements of § 61.57(a) or § 61.57(b) of this part.

(3) The flight simulator or flight training device used must represent an aircraft or set of aircraft for which the pilot is rated.