Alpha_Floor wrote:
They require 5 hours on type due to insurance unfortunately. DA42 hours don’t count.
You could do this with an instructor in a day or two? Obviously expensive but it depends how desperate you are :)
SueAir has DA40NG, checkout should be easy if you have 100h and enough glass cockpit
I recall it was 1h of dual circuits flying then straight to France next weekend
I can send you the CRI contact for checkout (he does IFR trips as well)
Ibra wrote:
I can send you the CRI contact for checkout (he does IFR trips as well)
Yes please!
Ibra wrote:
SueAir has DA40NG, checkout should be easy if you have 100h and enough glass cockpit
That one is not available either. Not enough hours on it before maintenance.
ChrisP wrote:
You could do this with an instructor in a day or two? Obviously expensive but it depends how desperate you are :)
The instructor said he wouldn’t be able to do those 5 hours before Sunday.
The reality is no one has any interest in letting their aircraft go overseas at the minute as if it gets bent or goes u/s it would be a monumental drama
MattL wrote:
The reality is no one has any interest in letting their aircraft go overseas at the minute as if it gets bent or goes u/s it would be a monumental drama
Of course. That’s why I’m looking for someone with a “can-do” attitude :)
MattL wrote:
The reality is no one has any interest in letting their aircraft go overseas at the minute as if it gets bent or goes u/s it would be a monumental drama
Ever-increasing degrees of the same mentality is why rental just isn’t a reasonable proposition for anyone trying to use a light aircraft for any purposeful trip.
It’s also a monumental (or at least, something of a) drama if it gets bent or goes U/S at anywhere more than X nm away, or anywhere unlicenced, or anywhere grass, or anywhere without maintenance facilities, or frankly anywhere that isn’t home base.
I don’t have a solution to any of this – as I understand the clear and obvious risks to the owner – but it’d be nice if renting a plane could be a bit more like renting a car. Maybe better insurance might help? As it is, anyone who wants to do anything meaningful with an aeroplane, beyond A-A flights and quick day trips to somewhere nearby, needs to look at an aircraft solution other than rental.
When I was doing my PPL, and hanging around for a bit afterwards, the schools would never do a fly-out abroad unless each plane had an FI in the RHS.
This served two purposes: they were able to bill every leg as a self fly hire plus instructor time, and there was no risk of the LHS deciding the return wx was too bad to fly back in and getting a Ryanair back and abandoning the plane there.
In this case that is daft because the OP has an EASA CPL/IR and wouldn’t do that unless the plane broke.
Exactly that. I took part in one such excursion in maybe 2012 and had an ‘interesting ’ conversation with ops afterwards, explaining that although a certain very nice instructor had sat in the RHS for a 2hr leg from Hilversum to Calais, he wasn’t instructing me and I would be paying for 2hrs solo hire.
