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Old 17th Sep 2021, 15:03
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Lt. Kije
 
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Originally Posted by JimEli
I'm curious, where is that regulation?

AFAIK, the only time NVG use is "required" is when performing an operation for the purpose of meeting part 61 experience requirements. Otherwise, an operator's GOM will stipulate when NVGs must be used.
Okay, I'm having trouble finding the root regulation forbidding their use in IMC (but it figures, right? NVG's are for looking outside, right? Sure we can look under them but why not use your whole visual field on the instruments? But here is the first reference I found:
https://fsims.faa.gov/WDocs/8900.1/V...04_CHG_22A.htm

And in Paragraph C: "NVGs are used as an aid to night flight during visual meteorological conditions (VMC), and operators are not to use NVGs during inadvertent instrument meteorological conditions (IMC)."

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