CRI and instructing at night

I think we all agree that you definitely cannot count hours at night done with a CRI for your night rating.

I’ve had 3 instruction flights where landing at night was much more practical than landing by day. I have a full time job, so some instruction flights (eg checkouts) are done late in the day.

There is some value in doing at night, to demonstrate how to tweak g1000 brightnesses etc (auto sometimes gets it quite wrong)

Ibra wrote:

Does that require students to have a night rating?

I’m not sure. I would only do it with someone that had a night rating though.

if yes or no, then what can be said about being able to log dual night landings? or logging dual night time?

I’m not sure what you mean, but with someone with a rating, I’d have them log landings and flight time in the “night column”, as PUT (as I hope you did when we did your DA40 checkout). It wouldn’t count for a night rating, but I don’t think there would need to be provisions for this (such as writing that “this does not count for the hours required to obtain a night rating”), since the holder would already have the rating.

Qalupalik wrote:

The same logic will apply to instruction given in IMC

I agree, I cannot see anything in the regulations preventing this. I think it makes perfect sense. A lot of the time I spend on checkouts is people trying to understand better the autopilot modes of the plane. It would seem a bit silly that the autopilot could only be trained in VFR, while the IFR seems inherently safer for avionics teaching, since the head of the pilot and instructor will be focused on the instruments panel rather than outside.

Peter, your recomendation paid out well – this last reply was very timely (15 days only), and had much more substance than the previous one I had gotten.