C525 vs C560
Two weeks training in both, at the end of the C525 you go home with your C525sp type...which is valid forever...
At the end of the C560 training, you get your type...your crew mate goes home to fly in a crew...you now start another week of SP training...you now demonstrate everything possible as a single pilot, including raw data single engine approaches, ect....
Your first SP type, has to be done in the aircraft, not a sim...which means that if you fail, about a 50% failure rate, means coming back a month later...and doing the whole flight again...not in a sim and do the failed portion after having a cup of coffee in the lounge.
The SP type is only good for a year..it expires...recurrent training is not 2 days... it's another week, and you take another SP type ride again...you don't just show up, like most recurrent training...you do this every year...let this lapse...and you get to do this in the plane again...
High failure rate, because of a first time in the plane...sometimes the FAA comes along for initials which can turn this ride into an all day deal...
If you get the SP waiver, you send off all your hours, every trip logged to Cessna, who sends all this info, including pass no pass training records to the FAA.
Only 120 or so pilots on earth have the exemption every year....roughly 500 pilots have ever had the exemption..with most not exercising SP privileges....they just do the SP training as recurrent...but have a copilot...
So the difference is because the FAA has this phobia once you get into planes past the 12500 lb limit...so when you start getting close to 17000 lbs, and the speeds his . 77...they want the training and records requirements.
Now the Premier I, might be light but it's fast. .80 and has some sweep in the wings...the weight got this past the Feds to stay with a single pilot type...not exemption...
CJ4s kind of break the rules, in that you can get the single pilot type and be heavier then 12500, but I suspect because it's not a speed demon, that might have something to do with it...
The SJ30 is the plane I want to fly....