Opinion: competetive multi-time in a C-337.

[JRSLim]

Looking for opinions on this one.

Pilot 'A' gets his Multi-engine rating in a Seneca with no centerline thrust limits on his certificate. He then puts in 150 hours in Senecas, Barons and Navajos. He gets the oportunity to fly a Cessna 337 for the low, low price of $100 an hour. He builds 150 hours in the 337.
At this point he has a legal and logable 300 hours multi-time. Since he never had a centerline restriction on his certificate, the 337 time is as good as the Baron etc. time.
Now, if he goes to apply for a job where 300 hours of Multi time is competitive, all else being equal with other applicants, does anyone think the 337 time be considered a handycap by an employer.

I suspect that in a competetive market it might be a deal breaker - I'm curious to see what you all think.

 

[Lead Sled]

FWIW, I've hired a few guys and it wouldn't bother me in the least if an applicant had some CLT time. My only question would be why did this guy pay $15,000 for 150 hours of flight time? There are much more productive ways to spend that kind of money than boaring holes in the sky in a Skymaster.

Lead Sled

 

[sky37d]

Ah, Led, the 337 is a wonderful airplane. Forgiving, redundant, simple to fly. If you are conventional multi, as I am, it's ME time, simple simple. If you wanted to go out an buy an A-26, the insurance company will look at the type of ME time, and may impose some serious restrictions, because you don't have any 'heavy twin' (like a king air, etc) time (at least that's what my agent told me). However, for job purposes, it shoud be just ME time. Like a seneca or a travelair.

 

[Lead Sled]

If you wanted to go out an buy an A-26, the insurance company will look at the type of ME time, and may impose some serious restrictions...

That's certainly true, but honestly, how many guys are out there are in the market for a freaking A-26?

For most guys, having multi time - any type - is probably good enough.

Lead Sled

 

[JRSLim]

My only question would be why did this guy pay $15,000 for 150 hours of flight time? There are much more productive ways to spend that kind of money than boaring holes in the sky in a Skymaster.

Lead Sled

Just somebody who's low on multi, low on money and working for a Flight School which doesn't let its MEIs (except the one 'chosen one') instruct in the club aircraft. Feeling desperate and looking for ways to build some multi time cheap to have a chance for at least a twotter job somewhere to get the ball rolling. * Don't like the idea of PFT SIC or safety pilot multi : )
That, and while I was pondering the 'IFs', I thought it would be a good topic to post

 

[English]

Just somebody who's low on multi, low on money and working for a Flight School which doesn't let its MEIs (except the one 'chosen one') instruct in the club aircraft.

Maybe it's time to find a new flight school.

 

[sky37d]

That's certainly true, but honestly, how many guys are out there are in the market for a freaking A-26?

Lead Sled

Uh, well, you see, there was this plane at osh, and it was for sale, see, and I said to my wife, wife, my life would be fine with this, and you would be fine with this, and wife said, well, talk to the insurance company, and then wife said, oh, how much was this thing that was so fine, and where, pray tell would we keep it, and just how much gas does it burn (160 GPH at cruise, 280kts), and that was pretty much the end of it

But I still want one.
She wants a king air. Go figger.

 

[JRSLim]

Uh, well, you see, there was this plane at osh, and it was for sale, see, and I said to my wife, wife, my life would be fine with this, and you would be fine with this, and wife said, well, talk to the insurance company, and then wife said, oh, how much was this thing that was so fine, and where, pray tell would we keep it, and just how much gas does it burn (160 GPH at cruise, 280kts), and that was pretty much the end of it

But I still want one.
She wants a king air. Go figger.

Lucky dog, my 'wife' could care less about airplanes. Actually the 337/O-2 is one of my all time favorite airplanes anyway, so I would really like to fly one (pilots I tell this to usually recommend psychiatric help).

English, I think you are pretty much right in that... its in the works.

 

[Lead Sled]

Actually, I really like the Skymaster too. The first one I ever flew was an early model - a 336 with fixed gear. It was like flying a twin-engined Cessna 206 - looking out the windshield you saw a prop; looking out the side, there was a wing strut; looking down, there was a landing gear leg. At least when you looked at the instrument panel there were two sets of engine gauges and two sets of engine controls.

Leas Sled