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.