Recent content by Toby Rice

@RussR well put, thanks! Regardless, I have a CE-500 type rating with no restrictions (outside of the 25 hour SOE). I can fly a 501/551 single pilot without anything extra. I can fly a 500/550/etc. with an SIC because they require two pilots. If I want to fly a 500/550/etc. as a single pilot...

All I know is that the single pilot authorization or exemption is only applicable to airplanes that require two pilots. The 501/551 don’t require two pilots, so no exemption or waiver is required. Now, if you take the check ride with or without an SIC depending on which model you use, you might...

The document separates it like this: They are separate. Anything listed under (1) talks about what happens when you’re tested in a 501/551. Anything listed under (2) is for the other ones. It’s not talking exclusively about a single pilot exemption. It’s talking about how you deal with pilots...

On the FAA 8900.2C document for DPEs, page 7-91 (around 202 on PDF viewer), it says:

This is where the feds contradict themselves. I took my checkride last week in a 550 with a copilot and have no limitations requiring an SIC. In fact, once I find it in my web history, I’ll send over the document that says that taking a check ride in a two-pilot airplane with two pilots means...

501/551 FSB 7. PILOT TYPE RATING 7.1 Type Rating. The Textron Models 501 and 551 type rating designation is CE-500. 7.1.1 Pilot Type Rating-Practical Test as Single Pilot Model 501/551. An applicant who satisfactorily completes a practical test as a single pilot in Model 501 or 551 will be...

I don’t believe that they are correct in giving you a 61.43 endorsement. I don’t think that’s required at all. I could be wrong… I like the back-and-forth discussion.

61.43 applies only to practical tests. If you take a checkride in a 501/551, you gotta do it single pilot unless you want the SIC restriction. Good news for us that took it in the 550 is that our plane requires two pilots, therefore we won’t have a SIC requirement on the ticket. That’s under...

I thought I was quoting a previous post. I’m typing on my phone and didn’t see that post. Section 7 of the FSB Report.

I see your point, absolutely. If your certificate says “SIC required,” then it’s required. But in all other cases, an SIC is NOT required to fly SP in a 501/551 that is properly equipped.

Then you would have to have an SIC. That limitation should only exist on certificates where the applicant took the check ride in a single-pilot airplane (501/551) but used an SIC on the test, which is optional. Any case outside of that where the limitation exists is purely an error and should...

The FAA TCDS for the 501 is A27CE. It says: That means it has been type certified for single-pilot operations from day one. Just like a Cessna 172, no exemption is required to fly the 501 single pilot. The TCDS for the 551 is the same. The TCDS for the 500, 550, and all other two-pilot...

After researching the rules contained in Part 91 concerning when an SIC is required, the TCDS for the CE501/551, the FSB report, and the rules for the single pilot exemption… The answer is that anyone with a CE500 type rating without “SIC required” does not need any exemption to fly the 501 SP...

@Plano Pilot thanks for that information. I agree—“legal” doesn’t necessarily mean “safe” or “smart.” Oh absolutely! I am the greenest of horns in the CE500. The purest form of green. Green enough to make a leprechaun go dizzy. Have you ever seen a dizzy leprechaun? They are similar to drunk...