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Old 18th Mar 2018, 18:20
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In SEP types, perhaps this should be part of differences training.
At least in EASAland and FAAland, there's no mandatory training on type within the SEP class, ditto (as the EV97 in my first post) within the microlight class. Differences training is only for "coarse" differences such as nosewheel .v. tailwheel, VP props, retractable gear, and so-on within SEP and not even that within microlight. I can't see there ever being any appetite to change that.

So where a difference can be made, primarily I think that needs to be in certification, and the composition of the POH. The latter can of course then give explicit advice about risks and how to manage them, and consciencious pilots may then make use of that advice.

My interest here, particularly, is in certification as I think that perhaps there are some questions that should be addressed in certification with regard to electric trimmers, that aren't being addressed as a matter of course.

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