Simulator Lease for Checkride Only?

[Lear70]

Does anyone out there know if there's a place that would simply rent their sim and a check airman for a Type Rating ride without having to do an entire class?

Assuming someone had extensive 757/767 experience and wanted to get the type but the employer wasn't willing to give it to them or had shut down and other jobs required a type, could you just go out and buy it without extensive class?

For example, a 757/767 full class and type rating costs about $16,000. A 3 hour sim session type ride only would run about $2,500 to $3,500.

A 737 full class and type rating costs about $6,500. That same 3 hour type ride would cost about $1,800 to $2,250.

Corporate stuff, same deal for say a Challenger 604. The 604 is the same cockpit layout and systems (with two exceptions) as a CRJ, but the 604 class runs about $25,000. The 3 hour type ride would cost about $3,000 to $4,000.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[501261]

Not likely.

To get a type rating in a simulator you need to have completed training under that programs FAR 142 training syllabus. See FAR 61.58e.

So basically even if you have gobs of Lear time or completed training under brand “SC’s” 142 program, to get a type in brand “FS’s” sim you need to have completed brand “FS’s” 142 training.

A much cheaper option is to find someone that can get you a type in the actual airplane. It’s a very common way of getting LRJET, CE500, and DA10 type ratings.

 

[Lear70]

Well at least I got a useful response on this section of the board. The corporate guys were quick to bash, most don't realize that I flew corporate for many years before I came over to "the dark side".

That's the response I'm getting from several places. There are a FEW that hadn't gone 142 last time I was in a 727/737 sim, but lately they all seem to have gone that way.

As far as the actual aircraft, I wondered about that; a Lear would be easy enough to charter from one of the cheaper guys to a local APD or DE to do a check (I got my type in the actual aircraft, not the sim), and I suppose I could find a 737-200 pretty easily, but the 757?

Maybe someone could get one out of the desert, find a FSDO with a 757 D.E., and get a bunch of guys who were interested to split the cost to do it all...

This is more of a "what if" thread than anything else,,, Thanks for the non-flaming response.

 

[FracCapt]

Keep in mind that you would have to have somebody to "sign you off" for the type ride. That would have to be either a CFI with a type in the aircraft, or a qualified instructor at a 142 school with a type in the aircraft. Who is going to do that without actually training you?