Note: The aircraft code for an LSA on an 8710 is:  SP-GEN-AP

Myles Landing Airport (27MD)

1. Use 122.9 for CTAF
2. There is a weather station.  Click 4 times and it will give you the wind on 122.9.  Nothing else, but this is handy.
3. The runway is in very good shape and has good markings.  It is only 50 ft wide, however, so prepare your student for a bit different sight picture.
4. Runway 12 has a displaced threshold--but the runway is over 3000 ft long.
The owner asked that we not do so many ops as to upset his neighbors

INSTRUCTORS OF U.S. CITIZENS

  1. Determine applicability. The requirements for determining citizenship status for any student, whether U.S. or non-U.S. citizen and non-U.S. national, applies only to flight training towards an initial pilot certificate, including a recreational pilot, sport pilot, or private pilot certificate; instrument rating; or multiengine rating.
  2. Proof of citizenship. Student must show evidence of U.S. citizenship to instructor with one of the following:
    1. Valid, unexpired U.S. passport
    2. Original or government-issued birth certificate of the U.S., American Samoa, or Swains Island AND a government-issued picture ID
    3. Original certificate of birth abroad with raised seal (Form FS-545 or DS-1350) AND a government-issued picture ID
    4. Original certificate of U.S. citizenship with raised seal (Form N-560 or N-561) or a Certificate of Repatriation (Form N-581) AND government-issued pictured ID
    5. Original U.S. Naturalization Certificate with raised seal (Form N-550 or N-570) AND a government-issued picture ID
  3. Logbook or record-keeping requirements. An instructor must do one of the following:
    1. Keep a copy of the documents used to provide proof of citizenship for five years
    2. Make an endorsement in both instructor’s logbook, or other record used by the instructor to record flight student endorsements, and the student’s logbook with the following:
      "I certify that [insert student's name] has presented me a [insert type of document presented, such as a U.S. birth certificate or U.S. passport, and the relevant control or sequential number on the document, if any] establishing that [he or she] is a U.S. citizen or national in accordance with 49 CFR 1552.3(h). [Insert date and instructor's signature and CFI number.]"
  4. Students who change flight schools and/or locations will be required to prove citizenship and receive a logbook endorsement. Recurring logbook endorsements are required when students change flight schools or instructors (if the instructor did not know the student when the student received the initial logbook endorsement).

Interpretation Letters

Rizner (1991) 9

  • What are the minimum qualifications required to act as safety pilot?

Hicks (1993) 7

  • Double-dipping PIC time: sole manipulator and safety pilot

Harrington (1997) 1

  • “the building up of flight time may be compensatory in nature if the pilot does not have to pay the costs of operating the aircraft”

Kortokrax (2006) 8

  • Are students or instructors considered passengers for recency of experience requirement purposes?

Glaser (2008) 10

  • Do PAR and ASR approaches “count” for instrument training and currency?

Sisk (2008) 4

  • Does the long cross-country required for the instrument rating require any leg to be at least 50 nm?
  • Does a flight with multiple points of landing require any single leg to be over 50 nm to be considered cross-country?

Bell (2009) 15

  • What is meant by “known icing”?

Gebhart (2009) 4

  • Logging PIC and cross-country time as a safety pilot

Glenn (2009) 4

  • Logging cross-country time as safety pilot
  • Logging SIC time as a safety pilot

Herman (2009) 4

  • Logging time while sole manipulator and appropriately rated, but lacking endorsements

Hilliard (2009) 5

  • Splitting cross-country time with another pilot where both pilots take turns as PIC

Mangiamele (2009) 10

  • Requirements for flying as a charitable fundraiser
  • Reimbursement for operating costs for business travel via private aircraft

Speranza (2009) 3

  • Logging PIC while sole manipulator on IFR flight plan, but not instrument rated

Van Zanen (2009) 2

  • Can I choose how I define a flight in order to optimize cross-country time?

Coleal (2010) 6

  • Is preventive maintenance that Part 91 pilots are permitted to do limited to the 31 items on the list in Appendix A to Part 43?

Hartzell (2010) 6

  • Can commercial instrument training requirements be met by prior instrument rating training?

Lamb-2 (2010) 6

  • Having a third party, such as your employer, pay your pro-rata share

Theriault (2010) 11

  • Can you fly an aircraft not rated for IFR on an IFR flight plan in VMC?
  • Can commercial instrument training requirements be met by prior instrument rating training?
  • Can the night cross-country from private pilot training be used to satisfy the requirement for night cross-country flight for a Commercial Pilot Certificate?

Haberkorn (2011) 5

  • Finding passengers via social media
  • Clarifying “common purpose”

Walker (2011) 8

  • Logging PIC and actual IMC while sole manipulator in IMC, but not instrument rated
  • Logging time as an instrument rated PIC while not sole manipulator
  • Safety piloting in actual IMC

Pratte (2012) 1

  • Is the list of acceptable instrument approach types for instrument training in Glaser (2008) exhaustive?

Roberts (2012) 6

  • Is a safety pilot required to pay pro-rata share while logging PIC?

Trussell (2012) 1

  • What can a safety pilot log if the pilot flying elects to remain acting PIC?
  • What obligation does a safety pilot have to share expenses?

Hancock (2013) 10

  • Does loaning an airplane to a pilot amount to compensation?
  • Does the owner of an airplane bear any responsibility if a person borrowing the airplane violates FARs?

Kuhn (2014) 2

  • How can a pilot working on a commercial certificate log time “performing the duties of pilot in command” with a CFI on board?
  • How can a CFI log time while riding along with a commercial student “performing the duties of pilot in command”?

Rohlfing (2016) 7

  • How does the three hours of instrument training from private pilot training apply to instrument rating training?

Fitzpatrick - Spartan College (2018) 1

  • Spin training provided by a CFI doesn’t require a parachute “regardless of what certificate or rating the applicant is seeking”.

Oord - AOPA (2018) 6

  • Can commercial instrument training requirements be met by prior instrument rating training?
  • Ties together Theriault (2010), Theriault (2011), and Hartzell (2010)

InFOs

InFO 15012: Logging Instrument Approach Procedures 17

  • This InFO clarifies the conditions under which a pilot may log an IAP in his or her logbook