Technicalities of flight training

[jknight8907]

I've got a few questions about what you can and cannot do while you are a student pilot.

1) Do the hours you accumulate while earning your private pilot's license count toward total hours after getting your PPL?

2) Is it possible to combine, for example, PPL, IFR, and ME? I ask because I am starting flight training before I'm 17 so I'll have a little time on my hands to use to develop my skills.

3) If 2 is possible, could the checkrides for those be combined? For example, do an IFR ride in a ME plane?

4) About how many hours total would be needed before the average insurance company would insure a person to fly a cabin-class twin? (PA-31)

Thanks!

 

[MTpilot]

I've got a few questions about what you can and cannot do while you are a student pilot.

1) Do the hours you accumulate while earning your private pilot's license count toward total hours after getting your PPL?

2) Is it possible to combine, for example, PPL, IFR, and ME? I ask because I am starting flight training before I'm 17 so I'll have a little time on my hands to use to develop my skills.

3) If 2 is possible, could the checkrides for those be combined? For example, do an IFR ride in a ME plane?

4) About how many hours total would be needed before the average insurance company would insure a person to fly a cabin-class twin? (PA-31)



1. yes
2.You can do any kind of training you want but can't start taking checkrides until you are 17.
3.No combining allowed, IFR in a ME is your multi instrument ride.
4.I know a guy with a few hundred and he has insurance for his twin.

Hope this helps.

 

[jknight8907]

Thanks.

As for #3, do you have to get a single-engine IFR before your multi IFR?

 

[Tinstaafl]

No. Do the IR test in a multi & it will cover you for IR privileges in singles. Not so if you do the IR test in a single: That would limit your IR privileges to singles only. You would then have to do another IR test** in a multi to get multi IR privileges. May as well have done the test in a multi in the first place...


**Or an ATP flight test in a multi because the ATP includes integral instrument privileges.

 

[jknight8907]

Thanks...that explains it quite well.