Originally Posted by
Pace
B2N2
You must be Joking or someone is ripping someone off? A simple aircraft to a simple aircraft with 5 hrs conversion time!!!
You can almost do a single to multi engine in that time.
Pace
An aircraft conversion will be "simple" for you but for a ab intio pilot transitioning to type with very different flying characteristics could IMO take up to 5 hours.
When I worked as a full time instructor the school had 5 C 152's and 1 C 150 Aerobat. The general rule was to not book presolo students who had been flying the C 152 on the C 150. The cowl design is different ( C 150 the cowl slopes down, C 152 the top of the cowl is flat) and so the "look" of the level flight/climb/turn attitude is a bit different. If you took a presolo C 152 student on the C 150 you wasted the first 30 minutes teaching them the new sight picture.
Until you have actually taught ab intio it is hard to appreciate how quite simple small changes can initially discombobulate a new student. The difference in the flap control between the C 150 and C 152 is a good example