Originally Posted by
mad_jock
Well if you do, you can apply your engineering intelectual skill and answer the question that Jetstream pilots have beeing wanting to know for the last 25 years.
Which is.....
Why is it such a pig to land.
You will need the full IR to get a TP multicrew rating. You might be able to swing getting a MCC pass though with your previous flight test stuff.
The current head of NFLC at Cranfield is a Test Pilot and to my certain knowledge has been flying the Jetstream for at-least 21 years. He's also one of the best TPs I know on fixed wing handling qualities. If anybody knows - he will already!
As you say, to fly anything certified as multi-crew I'll need the IR and ATPL writtens. As for the MCC course, maybe I'd get an exemption, maybe not, but to be honest I'd do it anyway because I'd learn useful stuff. Same reasoning as my declining to ask for an exemption from any components of the CRI course for being a qualified university teacher - I might have missed something useful.
Under EASA, Test Pilots on aeroplanes above 2000kg, and also test flying instructors now require an IR. No rational reason for this (most of what EASA has tried to do in test flying has been regarded as daft across the whole flight test community, who EASA have promptly ignored), but for that reason alone I'll need to do one sometime, otherwise I'll be somewhat career limited.
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