How do you define a "flight"?
Our SOP states that "Instructors are limited to four man-ups and three flights per day." but it does not SPECIFICALLY define what constitutes a flight. The result has been some recent scheduling of IPs to fly an X (student sortie), hot seat the student for another student, and then fly the same X again - commonly OCF or CQ events. Not unusual, but the contention is that this counts as ONE (1) FLIGHT, so the IP can then be scheduled for the same series again or for (2) more completely unrelated flights (such as ACM or TACF).
Anyone have any inputs?
Our SOP states that "Instructors are limited to four man-ups and three flights per day." but it does not SPECIFICALLY define what constitutes a flight. The result has been some recent scheduling of IPs to fly an X (student sortie), hot seat the student for another student, and then fly the same X again - commonly OCF or CQ events. Not unusual, but the contention is that this counts as ONE (1) FLIGHT, so the IP can then be scheduled for the same series again or for (2) more completely unrelated flights (such as ACM or TACF).
Anyone have any inputs?