A non current IFR pilot on an IFR flight plan for currency declared an emergency because of an sr-22...

Attributes
ACN	1114459
Time
Date	201308
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	SR22
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Cruise
Route In Use	Direct Vectors
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Powerplant Lubrication System
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Instrument
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 12.2 Flight Crew Total 547 Flight Crew Type 300
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy

Narrative:

During the cruise phase of flight; I encountered an oil pressure warning. I notified ATC who vectored me without incident back to my home airport. I did declare an emergency when asked by ATC. I was conducting a local IFR flight in order to maintain experience. Weather was VMC; broken at 2;000 ft with calm winds; so the conditions were great for some light IMC time.in march; I had conducted a flight review with an instructor where we had performed advanced IFR training such as partial panel approaches. At the time of the flight in august; I was under the impression that this march flight review was an ipc whereas in fact my last ipc was in november 2012; so although I had done 6 IFR approaches in the 6 months (3 with an instructor) prior to august; I was actually not in compliance with far 61.57.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: A non current IFR pilot on an IFR flight plan for currency declared an emergency because of an SR-22 oil pressure warning and discovered his lack of currency after landing.

Narrative: During the cruise phase of flight; I encountered an oil pressure warning. I notified ATC who vectored me without incident back to my home airport. I did declare an emergency when asked by ATC. I was conducting a local IFR flight in order to maintain experience. Weather was VMC; broken at 2;000 FT with calm winds; so the conditions were great for some light IMC time.In March; I had conducted a flight review with an instructor where we had performed advanced IFR training such as partial panel approaches. At the time of the Flight in August; I was under the impression that this March flight review was an IPC whereas in fact my last IPC was in November 2012; so although I had done 6 IFR approaches in the 6 months (3 with an instructor) prior to August; I was actually not in compliance with FAR 61.57.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

A non current IFR pilot on an IFR flight plan for currency declared an emergency because of an sr-22 oil pressure warning and discovered his lack of currency after landing.