Currency requirements for airline pilots

[evilroy]

Apologies if I have posted in the incorrect forum. We were discussing the airlines in comparison with the military, and were wondering:

• What currency requirements does the average airline pilot have?
• What systems do airlines use for currency management?

I know the basic requirements like 20.11 training and valid instrument rating but what else? Min monthly hours? Min number of TKOFs and LDGs in a set period? Just want to get a general overview.

The second question is how they are managed: individual responsibility? Is there an authoritative system? Depends on the company? In the ADF we use Patriot Excalibur (PEX)(Army & Navy aviation) and a version of FlightPro called ULTRA-FP (for Air Force).

Thanks in advance.

[Whopity]

The legal minima will be laid down in the Regulations and as AOC holders work to a Company Operations Manual all of the requirements and procedures for recording and maintaining records will be laid down in that manual. The company will audit the requirements and then the Regulator will audit the company.

[Meester proach]

3 take off and landings in preceding 90 days, otherwise trip to sim for a quick set of circuits

[wiggy]

As has been mentioned it can vary...

For example whilst the 3 in 90 days is in our manuals we are further constrained by the commander needing to do a take-off and landing at least once every 35 days and co-pilots need to have been at the controls for a takeoff and landing at least once every 35 days.

There is no minimum monthly hours requirement and the simulator can be used to retain recency, or regain it.....

Whilst fundamentally recency is an individual responsibility at our place it’s also tracked electronically (haven’t seen either a chinagraph or Perspex stats board in years). The landing pilot’s name code should be transmitted back to base via ACARS after engine shutdown...the “system” flags up any potential recency breaches to the Ops folks a few days ahead of expiry - they then chase the individual, usually initially by e-mail.

[macdo]

I can only speak for the airline I worked for until recently. We had a computerised company system which monitored all recency and licensing requirements and would generally look after you. But like all systems it had a human data input element which was open to error. A friend of mine found out the hard way after discovering that he had inadvertently flown while out of a legal requirement. He did the honest thing and self reported, only to have a severe disciplinary procedure thrown at him. It clearly stated in the company manuals that it is the pilots responsibility to maintain legality and they took a dim view of his oversight.