Instrument Proficiency Check?
In many places there may be more than one way to be considered current on something. Take instrument currency for example. In the United States FAA regulations require you to have six approaches and at least one hold in the last 6 months. However, you can alternatively have an instrument proficiency check (IPC), which then makes you “current” even if you don’t have the required number of approaches.
LogTen Pro can handle this quite nicely, here’s how you do it:
In the “notes” section of the flight detail view there’s an “IPC” check box, first off tick that.
A “minimums” or currency smart group has to take into account all the criteria (e.g. you have to have 6 approaches AND 1 hold to be current, just having one or the other is not enough, however, and this is important, the “any” selection above the criteria means that they don’t have to be on the SAME flight… if it was “all” then you would have to have 6 approaches and 1 hold on the same flight). So just adding the IPC criteria to the existing instrument group won’t achieve the desired effect because then you’d have to have the IPC AND the six approaches AND the one hold (although not necessarily on the same flight!)…
OK, so here’s how go about it:
- Create a new smart group
- Name it something useful like “IPC”
- Set the time period you want, 6 months, whatever…
- Set the criteria to Notes -> IPC -> is -> [ticked]
- Tick the “Treat criteria as minimums for the period” box
You now have a new currency group that shows your currency based on IPC. Now you can take this a step further, since you don’t really want two different instrument currency groups, this is an _alternate_ way to be considered current, so… simply drag and drop your new IPC group into your existing Instrument group. Now double click the instrument group, and at the bottom you’ll see: “This group contains sub groups, match