mcmanigle
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John McManigle
I'm playing around with the idea of going for a commercial multi ticket later this summer. There are a couple of decent part 61 options near where I (will) live (when I'm back in the States). My questions are:
1. Should I just take it as a given in this day and age that the "solo" flights will have to be supervised solo? Or is it worth asking around for insurance that would support this? I assume there's no chance of renter's insurance to support this sort of thing...
2. It looks like by the letter of the FARs, what's required for me to do commercial multi ab initio (from PP-ASEL+IR) is:
- 5 hr multi instrument
- 10 hr multi complex
- 2 hr day XC multi
- 2 hr night XC multi
- 3 hr test prep multi
- 10 hr "solo", including long XC and 5 hr night VFR w/ tower work
Combining things maximally, it looks like a minimum legal time would be 20 hours (10 with an instructor, 10 "solo"). Is that a reasonable approximation, or should I be thinking closer to 30-ish? (230 hours, proficient IFR, comfortable bouncing around between the basic trainer types, but little HP and no complex time.)
3. I'm leaning towards starting with CP-AMEL and then adding ASEL mostly so that I have enough multi hours to only be a moderate laughing stock to the insurance agent if I ever try to get insured in multi's. At the moment, I have no immediate plans to fly either multis or commercially with any regularity, I'm just arriving at a year in my life with more free time than I might have in the next several years. I'm open to arguments that just going CP-ASEL and adding AMEL would be so much less expensive and/or that the hours for insurance or proficiency wouldn't make much difference.
Thoughts?
1. Should I just take it as a given in this day and age that the "solo" flights will have to be supervised solo? Or is it worth asking around for insurance that would support this? I assume there's no chance of renter's insurance to support this sort of thing...
2. It looks like by the letter of the FARs, what's required for me to do commercial multi ab initio (from PP-ASEL+IR) is:
- 5 hr multi instrument
- 10 hr multi complex
- 2 hr day XC multi
- 2 hr night XC multi
- 3 hr test prep multi
- 10 hr "solo", including long XC and 5 hr night VFR w/ tower work
Combining things maximally, it looks like a minimum legal time would be 20 hours (10 with an instructor, 10 "solo"). Is that a reasonable approximation, or should I be thinking closer to 30-ish? (230 hours, proficient IFR, comfortable bouncing around between the basic trainer types, but little HP and no complex time.)
3. I'm leaning towards starting with CP-AMEL and then adding ASEL mostly so that I have enough multi hours to only be a moderate laughing stock to the insurance agent if I ever try to get insured in multi's. At the moment, I have no immediate plans to fly either multis or commercially with any regularity, I'm just arriving at a year in my life with more free time than I might have in the next several years. I'm open to arguments that just going CP-ASEL and adding AMEL would be so much less expensive and/or that the hours for insurance or proficiency wouldn't make much difference.
Thoughts?