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Commercial training aircraft

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Regarding the Commercial rating:

My flight school just added a Cessna 172RG. It has the retractable gear, as well as a 180HP with CS prop. Any thoughts/advice about using this aircraft for my Commercial and Flight Instructor training? The wet cost/hr is $165 (San Francisco Bay Area).

I will need a complex endorsement to start flying this aircraft. My understanding is that this complex endorsement would also qualify for a Flight Review.

 

 

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  1. David Vancina on Apr 06, 2016

    I’m doing my commercial training in one based at MDW. I’ve flown a 152 out of HWD a couple of times, from California Aviation. Where are you flying? (Just curious.)

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  2. Kris Kortokrax on Apr 07, 2016

    It meets the definition of a complex airplane. Why would you not be able to use it?

    Read 61.56 (a). As a would be flight instructor, you should become familiar with the requirements to be met for a flight review. The endorsement alone does not meet them. Additionally, the flight instructor doing the endorsement would need to specifically sign off the flight review, if you meet the requirements.

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  3. Mark Kolber on Apr 07, 2016

    I’m going to go out on a limb and say the Cutlass is probably the airplane most commonly used in the US for commercial and CFI training. I don;t know if this is still the case, it was so common that the ASA Oral Exam Guide for the Commercial certificate used it as the example airplane for all the systems questions.

    Adding a complex endorsement can easily be combined with a flight review but it does not automatically qualify as one. And, as you know, commercial requirements require you to have 10 hours of complex instruction anyway.

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