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Old 26th September 2011 | 10:19
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Genghis the Engineer
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You need a type rating for a microlight? and 3 take-offs and 3 landings on type?

I can accept that good practice is that you get a bit of time on type before teaching it - I'd do exactly that I hope. The old British rule of 5 hours is a reasonable one, although it depends to some extent how you define "type".

But I've not previously heard of any regime which requires a type rating for a microlight aeroplane, nor requires 3 take-offs and 3 landings in type, rather than in class. That does sound like something of a bureaucratic nightmare to exist within.

G

N.B. Do teach the fellow how to do a circuit and landing on rudder alone. A teleflex cable failure, causing loss of the flaperons, is not an unknown event on a Bantam. I'd suggest that this is the second most likely failure after an engine failure on this type.
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