The question I wanted to ask was, I hold a MEP rating on my license, do I have to do the complex single training???
....and the answer would, very likely, be "No".
Keygrip, I'm not sure that's correct.
Differences training is class-specific. Training you've had on an MEP does not carry over to an SEP nor vice versa.
So Hollywood
would require differences training. There is no minimum time required for this, but I believe it must involve a flight. (If there's any debate about this I'll try to dig out the relevant parts of JAR FCL 1 to confirm it.) Incidentally, what LASORS says on the subject is
not correct - it attempts to summarise JAR FCL 1, but in doing so makes a few errors.
I would say 5 hours is not unreasonable for a low-hours PPL who hasn't flown anything more complex then a C152 before. (It took me about 5 hours to do the training when I fitted that description.) But if you have an MEP rating and are current, then it really shouldn't take any more than a couple of hours at most, and you would be best to find a school which is flexible enough to not insist on 5 hours.
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