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.

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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.