If you have a commercial license and significant current experience on turboprops,
In the UK, this is not so.... There are lots of guys flying big interesting warbirds in the UK display industry who have PPLs, and turboprop experience is not at all relevant if you are flying behind a big round engine that runs on oil and uses fuel to cool the cylinders! Turbines are easy - If it starts without overtemping, it will mostly continue running! Starting a hot Merlin is a
real skill!!
Heres a clue:
1. Fly and be current on lots of vintage types, and be exceptionally good at several disciplines, such as low level aerobatics, formation flying. Have a Display Authorisation on several types. Get your face known and build a reputation as a good pair of hands..Military pilots don't necessarily get all the flying, especially these days...
2. Have
lots of tailwheel time (not many nosewheel warbirds.....), again on various types
3. Start at the bottom and work up. Tiger Moth, Chipmunk, Harvard, Spitfire etc etc. This is not something that happens overnight (unless it's your own warbird!)
4. Forget places like Shuttleworth unless you are a Test Pilot.
5. Insurance requirements will usually dictate who gets to fly these aeroplanes.
6. Wait to be asked...........
Oh, and by the way, there's already a big queue........
