Originally Posted by
Musician
Well, yes, the full list is
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/61.57
If you choose an instrument approach that requires you to track a course, and then ask ATC to put you on hold for one of the approaches, you're done? If you do it at night, or under the hood?
And since every commercial pilot needs their IFR rating, it's in the interest of the company to keep it up. In fact, my information is that the accident pilot was both the company's chief pilot and a cfii, aka an instrument instructor, who could've done the hood flights with the other company pilots?
So there is incentive for the pilot to be legally IFR-rated, which was my point.
It's clear that tells us nothing about how many flight hours he had actually logged in IMC and clouds.
An interesting perspective: simply fly 6 approaches under the hood on one flight, count that as the tracking/intercepting, and execute 1 circuit of a holding pattern. With that suggestion, is there any doubt there are accidents like this?