Originally Posted by nyathi
Ok, In BOTSWANA and SOUTH AFRICA and NAMIBIA and most other AFRICAN countries, you get a single engine land TYPE RATING, this means that if you have flown a PA28 or C150 or any of those thingy's and you DONT have a C206, C210 on your license as TYPE RATED then you will have to do the TYPE RATING here in Maun because.........That is the way it works here!
Sorry chaps, but that is how it works. Anybody understand, I'm happy to explain further if this is still unclear!
I think we had a massive misunderstanding here. The harsh comment was not directed at you, rather my first comment, as it came across badly to you. I did not mean it like that.
It's a little perplexing that you would need a type rating for, as I understand it, every single aircraft you want to fly then?
For example, here, if I have a Single engine land with complex and high performance endorsements I can fly just about any piston driven single made. This would include a PA28, C152, C210, AA-5 and M20 etc. This is far from the case in Africa(?) it seems and I don't understand the reasoning behind it.
Also, here we don't have anything on our license regarding specific aircraft. It's a class rating as said above.
I know the FARs that pertain to me fairly well, but I've never so much as cracked a book on African laws... so I don't know or understand the reasoning behind them.