Originally Posted by
jymil
JAR rules are described in FCL 2.026a and c
- 3 circuits including takeoff and landing on same type at night
- if you have an IR(H), then 3 circuits at daylight are sufficient
Originally Posted by
jymil
The final portion of an IFR flight is the same as VFR at night (unless we're talking about CAT3 Autoland). Normally, you land at an airport at night and everything is well-lit there, including an approach lighting system. Usually not a problem for a VFR day pilot.
I'd suggest that to imply a day landing currency is all you need to operate at night because you have an IR is delusional. I'll show you a dozen airfields within a cooee of me with instrument approaches that have no approach lighting and only minimal airfield lighting. Certainly nothing that even approaches the visual cues that are normal in a day landing, nor enough to give taxiing and hovering cues to take you to your landing point. Primary reference is from the landing lights: not something easily practised during daylight landings
Then what are you going to do when you do some
real night flying which doesn't include an instrument approach and lands away from an airfield, eg a minimally lit helipad?
