Public transport type rating requirements
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Public transport type rating requirements
I am just an interested observer rather than a party who urgently needs to know this information, so if this is in the wrong section of the forum, I apologise.
I just wanted to ask if anyone could clarify what the requirements are in UK/Europe (presuming they're currently still the same thing under EASA) for type ratings and public transport flying.
My understanding was that if you wished, years ago, to perform public transport operations as air taxi in, say, a Piper Seneca, you had to have a CPL (obviously) as well as a type rating on the PA34 (whereas if you were operating air taxi in the Seneca privately on behalf of the aircraft owner, the multi-engine rating would suffice), and you'd have to be flying with a company that had an AOC and was inspected by the CAA periodically.
My understanding these days is that there is no such thing as a Piper Seneca type rating and that those light, single pilot twins can all come under an MEP even for public transport operations. However, if you want to fly more complex aircraft like a King Air or multi-pilot aircraft, you have to have a type rating irrespective of whether you're flying them public transport or not.
I ask this mainly because a friend of mine told me that he did pleasure flying in a C182 many years ago, and said he had to be type rated specifically on the C182. When did this change/did it change?
Thanks folks
I just wanted to ask if anyone could clarify what the requirements are in UK/Europe (presuming they're currently still the same thing under EASA) for type ratings and public transport flying.
My understanding was that if you wished, years ago, to perform public transport operations as air taxi in, say, a Piper Seneca, you had to have a CPL (obviously) as well as a type rating on the PA34 (whereas if you were operating air taxi in the Seneca privately on behalf of the aircraft owner, the multi-engine rating would suffice), and you'd have to be flying with a company that had an AOC and was inspected by the CAA periodically.
My understanding these days is that there is no such thing as a Piper Seneca type rating and that those light, single pilot twins can all come under an MEP even for public transport operations. However, if you want to fly more complex aircraft like a King Air or multi-pilot aircraft, you have to have a type rating irrespective of whether you're flying them public transport or not.
I ask this mainly because a friend of mine told me that he did pleasure flying in a C182 many years ago, and said he had to be type rated specifically on the C182. When did this change/did it change?
Thanks folks
