Originally Posted by
thorn bird
Is night currency required in the USA?
If not, one wonders why its not raining aluminium over there given CAsA's insistence its a "Safety" issue.
Never really seen the point of a high end corporate jet jockey
having to front his local flying school to do his mandatory three
circuits in a C150 because their out of Australian night currency.
Easy for the mainlines I guess "Bloggs shoot down to the sim and do three night circuits will you".
For a GA operator of a high end global thats a very expensive exercise in the aircraft.
FAA requirements here:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/61.57
The FAA only require night proficiency for passenger carrying but it is only 3 takeoff and landings in the last 90 days. No passengers no requirement.
Also have a read of the requirements to keep an instrument rating current over there. If you fly regularly no need for an IPC... They must have carnage in the skies...