Originally Posted by
Mach E Avelli
Morno and Flying Bear offer good advice.
There is no point in spending money on some more advanced type that, even if the Operator would allow, the Insurers won't cover you to fly PIC....
Georgee, not all turbines require a type rating per se. If below 5700 kg they fall into the MEA Class endorsement category. … .
Mach, good point about the King Air I forgot about those. I suppose Caravans, PC12, some Learjets, Citations etc are in that space as well?
If that is the case, then there is nothing preventing RTOs offering gas turbine aeroplanes for units of competencies such as AVIY5023 Operate a multi-engine aeroplane and for trainee pilots to use the student-loans schemes for getting gas-turbine experience. May not help out Sierra at the moment, but the fact that Sierra is asking seems to indicate there is a potential market for it.