TBM930 on EASA PPL - type specific?
 

Can anyone tell me if the TBM930 is type specific for the purposes of flying on an EASA PPL? (In other words you cannot fly it on a Class Rating).

Thanks for any help.

TBM930

I am pretty sure that its type specific. I remember reading that Daher-socata were offering type ratings in the US for their TBM850, and recommended minimum hours was around 500 with an instrument rating if I remember well before they would let you start the training.

I doubt that EASA who love their types and more money for bits of paper type organisation would contemplate easing the requirements.

It is a very complex aeroplane so I guess it makes sense....

It would certainly need an SET class rating. Not sure about specific type rating, but obviously conversion training

https://www.easa.europa.eu/download/...t_Aircraft.pdf

Page 9

EASA states that you need SP HPA (Single Pilot High Performance Aircraft) as well as the SET (Single Engine Turbine). And it looks like entry in the licence is TBM SET.

It does not yet state the TBM930 - but one would assume that it will be added shortly!

Plus, of course, a pressurised turbine aircraft means that you will be flying high in controlled airspace so you will need a full instrument rating.

It is just a TBM SET Rating which groups all of the TMB SETs into a single class. You then do specific variant training to move between the variants in the Class.

You don't need a IR to get those SET ratings but it's a real waste of capability if you are limited to VFR!