For an already rated and current MEL pilot, a Baron checkout
should be under 5 hours, perhaps a little. But insurance
coverage often will require 25-50 PIC time in that
make/model. So, you hire a CFI to ride along.

The 25-50 that are required often end up being 95% cruise
with not no engine out practice, no systems drills, very
little in the way of hand flown instrument, very little
valuable training.

Five hours of good instruction with some refresher every 6
months makes more sense.


--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P

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"Neil Gould" wrote in message
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| Recently, Mxsmanic posted:
|
| Neil Gould writes:
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| You only think that because you have no experience in
real airplanes.
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| No, I think that because it's true, despite any
idiosyncrasy of human
| psychology that causes people to deny it. Many skills
and experiences
| are not transferable to highly foreign contexts. Being
able to hold a
| plane in level flight does not equate to being able to
taxi. Being
| able to taxi or fly with two engines does not equate to
being able to
| taxi or fly with one engine failing. Furthermore, even
speculating on
| the unfamiliar scenario is fraught with risk.
|
| By the time one is rated to fly -- anything, not just
multi's -- one has
| received training in all aspects of the operation of the
plane, including
| engine out. Taxiing with a single engine would be part of
that training.
| Even if one is already a multi-rated pilot, you can't just
go hop into
| some other multi-engine plane that you haven't been
checked out in and go
| flying. I don't know what the checkout in a Baron is, but
I wouldn't be at
| all surprised if it is 20-25 *hours* or more of
instruction.
|
| Neil
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