Originally Posted by
AdamFrisch
Don has an initial and it's approved by all insurers. 4 day ground and then flying. It's $2600, so not bad. At SimCom and FlightSafety you pay for the real estate, the crisp white shirts and the donuts that accompany your Nespresso coffee.
Yes the SIMCOM course is expensive but the SIM allows training that simply can't be done in the airplane. The first SIMCOM course I did was a C 340 recurrent. Since I had 2000 hrs Multi PIC and 300 hrs on the airplane I thought my boss was wasting money. After 3 days I was a believer. I did a bunch of stuff I had never practiced including engine failures right after rotation, high altitude upset, double engine failures, prop over speed and numerous extremely realistically presented systems emergencies. None of this can be safely done in the airplane.
My advice is take the initial with your guy and then do the recurrent in the SIM.