Originally Posted by
JimEli
I believe the 293 check needs to be accomplished in aircraft class type (I could be wrong).
CFR 135.293: "
(b) No certificate holder may use a pilot, nor may any person serve as a pilot, in any aircraft unless, since the beginning of the 12th calendar month before that service, that pilot has passed a competency check given by the Administrator or an authorized check pilot in that class of aircraft, if single-engine airplane other than turbojet, or that type of aircraft, if helicopter, multiengine airplane, or turbojet airplane, to determine the pilot's competence in practical skills and techniques in that aircraft or class of aircraft."
There are two possibilities I can think of:
1) The May 2019 training was on an Island Express S76,
2) The May 2019 training was on an AS-350, and the pilot also had a checkride on a S76 earlier that year.
The NTSB wording is ambiguous, and I don't know which is more likely.