Dumb question about FAR 61.65(d)

[Tantalum]

According to this http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgFar.nsf/FARSBySectLookup/61.65

an instrument pilot must have the following "50 hours of cross-country flight time as pilot in command, of which 10 hours must have been in an airplane"

My question is... how can you be pilot in command if you are not in an airplane? what am I missing? Is this referring to simulators?

 

[SkyDog58]

According to this http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgFar.nsf/FARSBySectLookup/61.65

an instrument pilot must have the following "50 hours of cross-country flight time as pilot in command, of which 10 hours must have been in an airplane"

My question is... how can you be pilot in command if you are not in an airplane? what am I missing? Is this referring to simulators?

Other aircraft type.

 

[Tantalum]

Other aircraft type.

Wow. I totally ignored lighter than air, etc. Thanks! that makes sense

The wording just seemed odd

 

[BillTIZ]

Glider, helicopter or what may be referred to as rotary wing. Balloon.

 

[midlifeflyer]

Wow. I totally ignored lighter than air, etc. Thanks! that makes sense

kind of hard to ignore one of these

 

[SbestCFII]

According to this http://rgl.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgFar.nsf/FARSBySectLookup/61.65

an instrument pilot must have the following "50 hours of cross-country flight time as pilot in command, of which 10 hours must have been in an airplane"

My question is... how can you be pilot in command if you are not in an airplane? what am I missing? Is this referring to simulators?

Rotorcraft...etc.

 

[SkyDog58]