Antonov AN-2 - multi-pilot plane ?
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From: UK,Twighlight Zone
As cambioso, I have yet to fly an AN2 that required a type rating or was multi crew. They are just big lazy SEP and a doddle to fly. Our DO28's were multi crew in service but are now a type rated SPA.
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My AFM, which is the original Bulgarian translation of the Russian one sais minimum crew either two pilots or one pilot and one flight engineer/mechanic.
I never got checked out in the "M" Variant which is indeed SEP. Possibly, the countries which have certified it SEP have done the same mods that the "M" has on the flight deck side.
Yet, it is kind of weird to see that almost all AN2's I see are flown by two pilots, also the ones I know of in Switzerland. So how do they log their time? I don't know. However, in BG it's still strictly a MEP airplane as far as I have understood the crews I talked to at Primorsko last summer.
I never got checked out in the "M" Variant which is indeed SEP. Possibly, the countries which have certified it SEP have done the same mods that the "M" has on the flight deck side.
Yet, it is kind of weird to see that almost all AN2's I see are flown by two pilots, also the ones I know of in Switzerland. So how do they log their time? I don't know. However, in BG it's still strictly a MEP airplane as far as I have understood the crews I talked to at Primorsko last summer.
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From: UK,Twighlight Zone
JAA/EASA do not recognise the aircraft as multicrew plain and simple. It is classed as an SEP and if you fly it on a JAA licence it is flown with a single pilot in command logging P1. Any addittional pilot logs nothing.
It's not complicated.....
It's not complicated.....
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From: Alabama, USA
Ground looping
It is not if... it is when you will experience a ground loop in a An-2. I have 1000+ hours in about a 10 year period flying this amazing plane. It has a very low cross wind component and it you have to land and the airport is crossed up, chances are your are going to loop. Once you get the first one out of the way... you kind of look forward to the next one. I was going into a field that did not have crossed runways and I was low on fuel. Landing was not an option. I ran out of rudder on short final and as soon as she touched down around we went into the grass. She will stay on her wheels and just gracefully skid around to 270 degrees to the runway and then you have the job of playing with the air operated hand brake and rudder to get her taxied off. I have blown an engine and made an emergency landing with the wind screen covered in oil flying at 7500' the airport was 3 miles away and brought it into the airport safely. Even though she broke a piston rod the engine was still chugging along so I was able to taxi off before the engine took its last breath. Love this airplane.
