Global Type Rating Currency / Recency Standards

[sicamore]

Having just started flying N reg aircraft again, I have just been made aware of something that I didn't know. Part 61.57 states that a sim session must be done every 6 months. All my other flying on foreign licenses, it is one year. I was in a rather heated discussion with an FAA instructor who claims that it is 6 months world wide.

Is this the case? What is the 'standard' For example under EASA the other heavyweight regulatory authority?

thanks!

[Denti]

To be honest i would have to look it up, however in every company I flew we had at least four simulator days spaced throughout the year. Usually in six month intervals as two days (with an additional classroom/CBT day). However one company had us do one simulator day every three months, alternating between LOFT and LPC/OPC. All that under EASA/JAR rules or their local predecessors.

[BizJetJock]

The version of 61.57 on the FAA website certainly does not say you have to visit the sim every six months. It says you must maintain instrument currency by doing 6 approaches etc within 6 months, and that they may be done in a sim. I suppose if you only ever fly in VMC and don't make a point of practicing then that would mean a visit every 6 months, but why would you let that happen?
As is so often the case at certain traning provider companies, the instructor appears not to have a clue what he is talking about.

[sicamore]

You're right, re reading it, it was designated as either /or actual flight or simulator in the last 6 months and every 12 months on a simulator as part of a part 142 training program.