Recently, I was alerted to changes under Part 61, that the Supervising PIC on ICUS flights is now required to hold an Instructor Rating or Examiner Approval.
Can anyone confirm my understanding of these new Regs is correct?
(1) A person's flight time as PIC under supervision is the duration of a flight if:
a) the person holds a pilot licence; and
b) the person performs all duties of the PIC for the flight; and
c) subregulation (2) or (3) applies to the flight
(2)- Part 142 / Multi-Crew, not relevant
(3) For Paragraph (1)(c), this sub regulation applies to the flight if:
a) the person is supervised by a flight instructor or flight examiner; and
b) the person is not receiving flight training.
If my understanding of subregulation 3 is correct, does this mean a small operator who has no pilots with instructor ratings or examiner approvals, need to contract out ICUS training to another outfit? I do hope I'm misinterpreting this!