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tailwheel insurance
I think as long as you don't rent it out you should have no trouble
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tailwheel insurance
There is at least one insurance company that will insure tailwheel aircraft (with a few models excluded) with student pilots.
For owners or renters? Owners I'd easily believe, renters you would have to prove to me. |
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tailwheel insurance
Helen Woods wrote: I heard a rumor that there no long is an insurance company, any insurance company, willing to insure a tailwheel plane for primary training. Is this true? Helen I'd suggest you contact a school that gives primary in a taildragger and ask them where/how they get insurance. Here are two places I've flown and I believe that they both give primary instruction on their taildraggers. Sport Aviation, Van Sant www.vansantairport.com Sunrise Aviation, John Wayne Airport, CA www.sunrise-aviation.com I also know of two places in Canada that gives primary in a taildragger and one that gives primary on floatplanes (that switch to skiis in the winter). If you want the names of these, just email me. (The Canadian insurance situation is a little different, but not much w.r.t. hull coverage.) I think the answer is that is still possible, but not easy. Good luck with it, rick |
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tailwheel insurance
Aerospace Insurance Managers writes some models of tailwheel aircraft for
primary instruction and/or rental. Do you have a specific aircraft in mind? If you don't already have an insurance broker that you're working with, try giving Jason Hendrix at Falcon Insurance a call. (972-250-0800) He can probably find you coverage. Michele Howard "Helen Woods" wrote in message news For an instructor with a commercially operated plane and/or small business. Helen |
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tailwheel insurance
These rumors are started by flight schools that have an unattractive claim history or can't attract and retain qualified tailwheel instructors
Its also a lot easier to renew a policy that start a new one. If you already have a tailwheel and have been accident free you have a much better change than someone trying to add a TW to their FBO. -Robert |
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tailwheel insurance
Renters. Avemco as a minimum. Just call them, tell them your're a CFI
with 1000 hours tailwheel time, and want to put a Cub or Champ on the line as a rental, with yourself as the only instructor. No problem. A friend of mine just made that call. The insurance was available, though it was expensive. There are at least two tailwheel airplanes available for rent in Houston that can be soloed by student pilots. One is quite expensive, mainly due to insurance. This is because they will cover minimally qualified tailwheel instructors. 100 hours tailwheel time, with 15 hours in make and model is the minimum they will consider, and every instructor must be named. Each instructor also needs a checkout from the chief instructor, who has literally thousands of hours in taildraggers. I doubt they would insure a minimally qualified tailwheel instructor who wants to go it alone. The other one is much cheaper, but the instructor standards are significantly more stringent. Michael |
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tailwheel insurance
Its also a lot easier to renew a policy that start a new one. If you
already have a tailwheel and have been accident free you have a much better change than someone trying to add a TW to their FBO. One of the Houston operations I am thinking of is not accident free. They have a fleet of a few Citabrias and Decathlons, and groundloop one every few years. Insurance companies understand that groundloops are an inevitable part of tailwheel training, and will accept them - within reason. Student solo is possible in the Citabrias at this operation. At my home field, we had an operation with one Citabria that didn't fly very much. In the four years they had it, they had two wing strikes and five prop strikes. Unsurprisingly, they can't get insured for student solo. Michael |
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tailwheel insurance
The FBO (Stanton Sport Aviation) at Stanton MN continues to have
insurance for tailwheel instruction and rental. However, the unsolved insurance issue there is for those customers with no medical, hoping for a for Sport Pilot License, either students or licensed. |
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