Private to Public Cat

[Squadgy]

Hi,

Does anyone have any experirence of changing soemthing like a Cessna 150 from a Private Cat CofA to a Public Cat one?
What are the additional costs involved (e.g. how much for the 'upgraded' CofA and then each suqsequent one. Do insurance costs increase, will I have to pay the CAA anything?)

Thanks

[Flyin'Dutch']

You will have to pay the CAA for the conversion and inspection of your machine (about £400 IIRC).

Insurance should make no difference unless the use is going to change (as in putting it on a PT C of A to do aerial work, hire or training on it)

The usual biggy is that engines on aircraft on Pvt CofAs can have an engine running on condition which is something you can not do for PT CofA when you can only run it to TBO and an extension of 10% (ISTR you can apply for that twice)

HTH

[A and C]

The fees listed above are correct , the maximum engine extention is TBO + 20%.

Apart form that there is not much differance in costs since the new LAMS maintenance schedule was introduced in 1999.

[Flyin'Dutch']

Thanks A and C,

Good to see that the old brain is still in fine fettle (well with regards to mindless trivia!)

Ciao

FD

[Squadgy]

Thanks for the replies. A follow up question : If I was to operate the same C150 to JAR145 (AOC) standards, how does that work out cost and admin wise??

[FNG]

The costs of operating under an AOC are not much greater than those of operating under a Public C of A (although you need to have a particular engineering frm with the appropriate JAR tick and this may be more expensive than average). You have to have a more detailed tech log than you would otherwise have, taking account of fuel weights, pax weights etc. There's a bit more to it than that, of course.