Multiengine Rating

BT wrote:
If you can rent a Twin without the Instrument rating. Then work on your
commercial written and maneuvers in a Piper Arrow or similar aircraft, at
the same time intersperse some Twin Training.

Take the Commercial SEL check ride one month, and the Commercial MEL within
a few days.
Without an Instrument Rating, your Commercial credentials will be limited.


Nobody was interested in renting a twin at all in my area, so I put the multi
rating on the back burner until I had a need. I'd gotten my private,
instrument, and then commercial license and just started building hours by hook
or by crook. I eventually was in the right place at the right time and talked
my way into single engine part 135. I started doing single pilot charters for
them and saw the handwriting on the wall.... it was time to see about a multi
rating (my company used a C-402B for multi charter; a Cherokee Six or C-210 for
single engine charter).

I went down to Atlanta to one of the flight schools that advertised at the time
in Trade-A-Plane. I'm too lazy to go downstairs and see how many hours it took
but it wasn't all that much (maybe 6 or so). We did most of the training in a
multi sim, then went for a couple of flights in a Seminole. After that it was
just a check ride with a designated examiner who was on staff at the flight
school.

I continued doing my single engine charter for the company until one day I was
scheduled to fly as copilot on a C-402 trip and the pilot didn't show up (went
on a bender instead). Didn't call, nothing. Just didn't show up... but I did.
I ended up flying the folks in a Cherokee Six. The following week, I got
checked out as PIC in the C-402. Nice airplane. I enjoyed flying it a lot.

The point of all this is that getting a multi rating as the first add-on to a
private license is probably going to be a waste of time and money. You'll get
infinitely more utility out of an instrument rating. Then when things fall into
place, you can always add the multi rating later. It just isn't that big a
deal.



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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

Mortimer Schnerd, RN writes:

We did most of the training in a multi sim, then went for a couple
of flights in a Seminole.

Why waste time in a sim? It has nothing to do with real flying. I
know this because experts here have told me so.

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Oh man, this is such a nice pitch, right down the middle, so very easy
to hit out of the park.

Or is it bait?

Looks like bait.

Smells like bait.

Trolls like bait.



On Jan 15, 3:39 am, Mxsmanic wrote:
Mortimer Schnerd, RN writes:
We did most of the training in a multi sim, then went for a couple
of flights in a Seminole.Why waste time in a sim? It has nothing to do with real flying. I
know this because experts here have told me so.

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Mxsmanic wrote:

Why waste time in a sim? It has nothing to do with real flying. I
know this because experts here have told me so.


Then you haven't been paying attention, my flightless friend : )

(you were right, Tony...)

yah.. that's a trolls response.. but for those out there that already know
how to fly..
a SIM when USED PROPERLY with a QUALIFIED INSTRUCTOR and replicates the
aircraft to be flown
can be used to practice Check List Items, Systems Knowledge and Procedures

My First "SIM" was a card board mock up of the Navigator crew station on the
B-52, so We could practice checklists and know where all the 100 switches
and dials were. The next "Sim" was a "radar" trainer with a large glass
board that would replicated a radar scope and feed images to the radar (we
are talking 1970s technology), the T10 Trainer.

Oh, I should not forget the "cardboard box" solar system SIM for learning
how to use a sextant and take "Cel Shots"

My Last SIM, was the full motion B-1 Weapons System Trainer.
BT

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Mortimer Schnerd, RN writes:

We did most of the training in a multi sim, then went for a couple
of flights in a Seminole.

Why waste time in a sim? It has nothing to do with real flying. I
know this because experts here have told me so.

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