Instructing on multi-engine aircraft
I read a few months ago a JAR-FCL- news sheet with information for AOPA-EU- Members about IAOPA "successes".
This news sheet listed JAA/JAR proposals for pilot instruction, and the outcome after pressure had been applied by IAOPA. These outcomes were hailed as successes mainly on the grounds of cost saving.
Here is an example:- Proposal- Requirement for flight instructors to obtain 500 hours PIC on multi-engined aeroplanes before being permitted to train pilots for multi-engined rating.
Outcome:- Reduced to 500 hours as pilot of aeroplanes.
Claimed benefit:- Considerable cost saving.
The implication is that a flight instructor can have little or no PIC time in multies.
I was more than happy that my instructor for conversion from singles to multies was very experienced in asymetric goarounds in twin wing mounted engined aircraft. If not I would almost certainly have turned the thing on its back and dived inverted into the ground.
This is only one example of cost cutting achievements by IAOPA. I know that flying training is expensive but what value safety?
Perhaps there was an answer to this particular point somewhere between 500 hrs. PIC in multies and just 500hrs as pilot. I had much more than 500 pilot hours when I undertook my multi conversion and as I say I was happy to have an experienced multi instructor. What do you folks think?