What Can I fly?

[Capt Crash]

I have a CPL/IR and I am an instructor. I have a chance to fly with a PPL in a Cessna 182 for a short trip. I have never flown a 182 before but have 172 and complex time in my log book, can I fly the 182 without having a ‘difference check’ with a fellow instructor.

What qualifications do you need to be able to conduct ‘differences training’?

How different does an aircraft need to be to require ‘differences check’? Will I need a check out if I fly a PA28 161 then a PA28 180?

Is it me or is this JAA thing really confusing!


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[foxmoth]

My understanding is that if you have done (say) CS props it is then good for any A/C with a CS prop. But i'm sure there are others more up with these new reg thingies than me.

[Stan Evil]

Foxmoth is quite correct. If you have P1 time in your logbook on any type with a CS prop then you can fly any CS prop machine. Same goes for retractable u/c, tailwheel, turbochargers, pressurisation. If your first experience of one of these "complexities" was after 1 Jan 99 then you should have differences training signed in your logbook by an FI (although you don't legally have to fly a trip to get the training). Differences training was going to have a 2 year time period on it but this has gone and now it's for ever.

[foxmoth]

I think tailwheel wasn't included as an extra in the end, though it was planned, and you would be daft not to get a proper tailwheel check out if you havn't flown one before.

[Capt Crash]

Thanks for the help, just the news I wanted.

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