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12-15-2017, 05:51 AM
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Be aware that a sim session for currency is no longer 20 minutes in the sim getting 3 bounces. You are required to run through basically every approach your fleet is authorized and can't be released to the line unless proficient. If your currency has actually expired you are required to complete even more items including non normals. You can view the requirements in the DIG for your fleet.
12-15-2017, 05:57 AM
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12-15-2017, 06:17 AM
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Since you are asking these questions im guessing you are new?
Some categories come with 'built in' recency sims because its a mathematical impossibility to maintain recency for every pilot.
Otherwise i personally would not advise letting recency lapse. If you havent been used on reserve ys is one option. So is calling cpo and asking about a trip buy.
And unless you are well experienced in the airframe, showing up for cq after not flying for 90 days isnt very smart. Or usually fair to the other pilot you are training with.
Just my 0.02..
Some categories come with 'built in' recency sims because its a mathematical impossibility to maintain recency for every pilot.
Otherwise i personally would not advise letting recency lapse. If you havent been used on reserve ys is one option. So is calling cpo and asking about a trip buy.
And unless you are well experienced in the airframe, showing up for cq after not flying for 90 days isnt very smart. Or usually fair to the other pilot you are training with.
Just my 0.02..
12-15-2017, 06:21 AM
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What is a pilot's obligation for landing currency? I need one before early January but will soon be going out on vacation and reserve has treated me well lately. I've already filled out the days of availability form on iCrew. Am I required to submit yellow slips? Is it frowned upon to sit back and relax on reserve and simply wait for a sim session to be scheduled? Just trying to understand the process and expectations. Thanks.
12-15-2017, 07:41 AM
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What is a pilot's obligation for landing currency? I need one before early January but will soon be going out on vacation and reserve has treated me well lately. I've already filled out the days of availability form on iCrew. Am I required to submit yellow slips? Is it frowned upon to sit back and relax on reserve and simply wait for a sim session to be scheduled? Just trying to understand the process and expectations. Thanks.
I declined and then they put me in a sim a week after my vaca to regain currency and it lasted nearly 2 hrs as we went through all the approaches and critical maneuvers. Went from 11pm to 1am. Pretty much a pia as I had declined a hotel room as they told me it was during the “d” period when in reality I was after a student doing the d period and didn’t start till after 11. The only upside in the deal was burning four days of avail due to unqual post vaca until the sim ride.
12-15-2017, 08:31 AM
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What he said. Having the chief pilot office buy a convenient trip is a much less painful way to stay current than the sim. Green slips are another option, since you'll get the extra $ and days off back. I wouldn't yellow slip for free unless it is a trip you REALLY just want to fly.
12-15-2017, 10:49 AM
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Be aware that a sim session for currency is no longer 20 minutes in the sim getting 3 bounces. You are required to run through basically every approach your fleet is authorized and can't be released to the line unless proficient. If your currency has actually expired you are required to complete even more items including non normals. You can view the requirements in the DIG for your fleet.
12-15-2017, 10:54 AM
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Not sure where you based. My experience is that most CA's give the landings to those that need them. They are actually required to give up the landings for a pilot with a currency issue. If you go non current tell the CP you asked for landings and were refused. They will have a chat with the Captains involved.
12-15-2017, 11:27 AM
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Not sure where you based. My experience is that most CA's give the landings to those that need them. They are actually required to give up the landings for a pilot with a currency issue. If you go non current tell the CP you asked for landings and were refused. They will have a chat with the Captains involved.
Had a short domestic leg a couple of months ago, and DH back, I was 4 weeks away from going non-current, I told him that I needed a takeoff and landing. He said, "I think I'll do the leg..." Three weeks later I'm in the sim for recency.
Then throw some 4 man crew in there, other pilots doing the landings.
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