From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!rabbit!ark
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Title: Re: safety pilot requirements
Article-I.D.: rabbit.742
Posted: Wed Sep  8 11:14:57 1982
Received: Thu Sep  9 04:23:08 1982
References: tekchips.142

Two notes:

1.  The complex-airplane signoff is not a rating.  From a practical
    viewpoint, it does not take any significant special training to
    know how to run away from traffic in a complex airplane if you
    already know how to do so in a simple airplane.

2.  There was a period of time (and I'm not certain whether it encompasses
    the present) when it was explicitly permited to conduct practice
    approaches and, for that matter, instrument instruction in actual
    IFR, in an airplane equipped only with a throw-over control wheel.
    Presumably this was put there to keep Bonanza owners happy.