Training to fly a corporate jet

[elkurro]

I have to pick some brains here. Where can someone with no corporate experience go to get trained and typed in a 12 seat corporate airplane (model unknown yet, but possibly one of the more common types)? Looking for academies, schools, etc., preferably in Texas or Florida. Thanks for inputs.

 

[banned username 2]

I have to pick some brains here. Where can someone with no corporate experience go to get trained and typed in a 12 seat corporate airplane (model unknown yet, but possibly one of the more common types)? Looking for academies, schools, etc., preferably in Texas or Florida. Thanks for inputs.

Flight Safety or SimuFlite... Depending on the Make and Model... will run you from around $12,000 to around $45,000...

What are you trying to do? If you are looking to buy a Type Rating to try to break into the field, you are wasting your money... A Type Rating with no appreciable time-in-type (at LEAST 100 hours) is a waste of money...

 

[elkurro]

What are you trying to do? If you are looking to buy a Type Rating to try to break into the field, you are wasting your money... A Type Rating with no appreciable time-in-type (at LEAST 100 hours) is a waste of money...

Thanks for the reply Falcon Capt. I'm trying to see if it's feasible to fly for someone who is thinking about purchasing a jet. The idea is for a couple of guys without time in an airplane to become qualified to fly it.
Is this a possibility?

 

[User546]

I'n the most respectable way possible... NO!!

All your going to do is end up killing yourselves and your passengers one day. I don't see there being a problem at all with a "green" pilot flying right seat, but it's a MUST to have a qualified, and time-in-type Captain sitting right seat. If not, your only setting yourself up for disaster.

Sure you can go get yourself typed in an aircraft, but that by NO means that you need to then go fly an aircraft with another guy that doesn't have any time in it eitherl. Type ratings don't buy that most valuable thing... experience!

 

[Lead Sled]

I'll have to second what User997 and Falcon Capt wrote. Breaking into jets can be frustrating, but trying to buy your way into it will only cost you big $$$ with little or no chance of success. Remember, like all other aspects of aviation, type rated or not, it's not the FAA that decides what you are qualified to fly - it's the insurance companies. It's certainly possible to climb into a "12 passenger business jet" with little or no experience in type - if you've got enough previous jet experience to give the insurance company the warm fuzzies. Starting out cold with a rookie crew, it most likely ain't ever going to happen. One other thing to consider. A type rating in your pocket is essentially only good for 12 months at a time. To keep it current requires some form of recurrent training which is also big $$$.

Lead Sled

 

[Vik]

I have to pick some brains here. Where can someone with no corporate experience go to get trained and typed in a 12 seat corporate airplane (model unknown yet, but possibly one of the more common types)? Looking for academies, schools, etc., preferably in Texas or Florida. Thanks for inputs.

I'm with everyone else. You won't get insurance.

Its a pain in the @ss to get insurance for a light twin such as a Twin Commanche for someone with a few hundred hours and no time in type let alone in a jet. I've got 400 hrs TT / 50 ME and only one insurance company will do a Twin Commanche and they required 25 hours of dual and its around $8k/yr until I have 100hrs in make and model. If I had bought a Cessna 414 or something larger, 50 hrs of dual, and you don't even want to hear the quote. This is for personal insurance, not commercial insurance (in the event you plan to use the jet for commercial ops).

Its just not going to happen for a jet. Very unlikely anyway.

 

[elkurro]

Thank you all very much for your candid and informative replies. Don't worry about having a couple of unqualified guys flying around without experience, the question was mostly academic - I have never flown GA or corporate. But I'm glad it elicited such a strong response. Have a good weekend.

 

[Bandit60]

Thank you all very much for your candid and informative replies. Don't worry about having a couple of unqualified guys flying around without experience, the question was mostly academic - I have never flown GA or corporate. But I'm glad it elicited such a strong response. Have a good weekend.

I thought this sounded fishy. The part about a 12 passenger corporate jet starting out just didn't sound right.

 

[banned username 2]

I thought this sounded fishy. The part about a 12 passenger corporate jet starting out just didn't sound right.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing...

 

[kilroy]

Buying your way into a jet is like calling the ntsb before you take off... cause you know your going to crash. think Thurman Munson.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!