What is the deal with the turbine ticket? If you can keep a biggish piston engine healthy and efficient you should be able to grasp turbine operations in a couple of minutes. Push-button start just isn’t that hard.
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Originally Posted by Australopithecus
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What is the deal with the turbine ticket? If you can keep a biggish piston engine healthy and efficient you should be able to grasp turbine operations in a couple of minutes. Push-button start just isn’t that hard.
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Still not getting it. Is a separate ticket required to operate an Pratt R-985? How about a Lycoming TIGO-541?
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Originally Posted by Australopithecus
(Post 11002245)
Still not getting it. Is a separate ticket required to operate an Pratt R-985? How about a Lycoming TIGO-541?
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It is a design feature in Part 61, the same as the retractable undercarriage, etc.
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Originally Posted by Australopithecus
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Still not getting it. Is a separate ticket required to operate an Pratt R-985? How about a Lycoming TIGO-541?
As for a separate gas turbine endorsement, for once this is not something CASA dreamed up. Many other ICAO States have required it since I was a boy, over 50 years ago. I recall the exam then being quite comprehensive. The most recent 'approved' GTE exam I saw was pretty basic stuff. Are turbines more tricky to drive than supercharged radials or geared turbos ? Obviously not. But older turbines that still prevail in much of the GA fleet don't have the protections of the latest kit. The consequences of cooking one could exceed half a million bucks, as opposed to blowing a jug on your R985 - which could cost 10% of that. Not too many operators would turn a 200 hour CPL loose on complex engines, which is why the OP would be spending unneccesary money at this stage. |
Hire a twin and do a wheels up. You'll get the call from mainline in no time. Or run it out of fuel. |
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