Aldassy wrote:
“If you have not started your Instrument stuff yet, I would recommend getting your Multi done now. Get your instrument rating and commercial rating in the twin. You will have 100 hours of twin time when you graduate, and won't be gouging out the eye's of the other MEI's at your flight school for multi time as a f;ight instructor.
As for those of you who would say it costs too much, look at the reward. Lets say you are planning on spending $150 an hour for dual instruction in a 172 for your instrument and commercial. Then say you could rent the twin at $200. Effectively you are paying $50/hr for twin time you will need to buy anyways. The $150 you are spending for the 172 is already a sunk cost, you need to spend that money to get the rating. So if you add $5000 to the bottom line of your total training, you will get 100 hours of ME time. You actually get to touch the controls, no saftey pilot time. Thats a better bargian than you can get at other places.
If you look at getting your multi later, you will have to spend that $200/hr for lets say 20 hours. You are looking at $4000 for a add-on rating and only 20 hours of ME time. So for the difference of $1000 you can be sitting on 80 more hours of ME time.
Some of you may argue that the prices and estimated hours might be off, but trust me, when you get your multi first, the multi time will be cheaper in the long run.”
Bobby wrote:
Multi v. single
“If you can swing the extra bread somehow, do what you propose in the Duchess. I realize it costs more, but you could have a good 50 to 100 hours of multi PIC under your belt when you finish. Once again, consider getting your initial instructor ratings in the multi.
Once again, plenty of people wait to get their multis and are successful. But I feel that doing Instrument and Commercial in the multi is the better way in the long run.
I appreciate aldassy's comment about MEI eye-gouging for multi time. I'll tell you something, though, the multi time eye-gouging never ends, no matter how much multi time you have! It might end if you get on with a commuter, freight, 135, etc. that operates multis.”
Just for the sake of argument…
If one were too chose this route. What is the difference between 70-100 multi hrs that are dual received vs 100 hrs of the safety pilot deal (50 under the hood/50 as safety pilot)?
How will future employers look at it? If you are flying under the safety pilot loophole with another low experience pilot would you have more responsibility than flying with a MEI?
I don’t know?? I am just trying to play the devils advocate, please don’t flame me…
“If you have not started your Instrument stuff yet, I would recommend getting your Multi done now. Get your instrument rating and commercial rating in the twin. You will have 100 hours of twin time when you graduate, and won't be gouging out the eye's of the other MEI's at your flight school for multi time as a f;ight instructor.
As for those of you who would say it costs too much, look at the reward. Lets say you are planning on spending $150 an hour for dual instruction in a 172 for your instrument and commercial. Then say you could rent the twin at $200. Effectively you are paying $50/hr for twin time you will need to buy anyways. The $150 you are spending for the 172 is already a sunk cost, you need to spend that money to get the rating. So if you add $5000 to the bottom line of your total training, you will get 100 hours of ME time. You actually get to touch the controls, no saftey pilot time. Thats a better bargian than you can get at other places.
If you look at getting your multi later, you will have to spend that $200/hr for lets say 20 hours. You are looking at $4000 for a add-on rating and only 20 hours of ME time. So for the difference of $1000 you can be sitting on 80 more hours of ME time.
Some of you may argue that the prices and estimated hours might be off, but trust me, when you get your multi first, the multi time will be cheaper in the long run.”
Bobby wrote:
Multi v. single
“If you can swing the extra bread somehow, do what you propose in the Duchess. I realize it costs more, but you could have a good 50 to 100 hours of multi PIC under your belt when you finish. Once again, consider getting your initial instructor ratings in the multi.
Once again, plenty of people wait to get their multis and are successful. But I feel that doing Instrument and Commercial in the multi is the better way in the long run.
I appreciate aldassy's comment about MEI eye-gouging for multi time. I'll tell you something, though, the multi time eye-gouging never ends, no matter how much multi time you have! It might end if you get on with a commuter, freight, 135, etc. that operates multis.”
Just for the sake of argument…
If one were too chose this route. What is the difference between 70-100 multi hrs that are dual received vs 100 hrs of the safety pilot deal (50 under the hood/50 as safety pilot)?
How will future employers look at it? If you are flying under the safety pilot loophole with another low experience pilot would you have more responsibility than flying with a MEI?
I don’t know?? I am just trying to play the devils advocate, please don’t flame me…
