Originally Posted by Dick Smith
In Australia pilots must do a Night VFR rating of 10 hours dual (say, a cost of $2,000), including 2 hours of dual night circuits, 5 hours of dual night navigation training and at least one 3 hour navigation exercise of 100 miles or more. They must then pass a test at night.
Dick,
Well over double, nay treble, that cost for helicopters
The 3 hour Nav is a farce, most training helicopters don't have the endurance for a 3 hour Nav, and there are some in the training industry, and in CASA, who read the requirement as
non-stop 3 hours.
My last pilot who did a NVFR rating cost me a a lot, not least because the night Nav had to be aborted due weather and only totalled 2.5 hours. No discussion,
another night Nav had to be flown of 3 hours total, no credit at all for the 2.5hr already flown
