Originally Posted by
zondaracer
When i went through training, one of the training manangers came to our class and said that there was a guy who got hired with 1500 hours. He was part way through training and they looked at his logbooks and he logged a lot of SIC in single pilot operations. He was essentially 1000 hours short.
If you are coming from a 135 that requires a SIC in the opspecs, you will he fine.
Originally Posted by
hawk21
I flew for a 135 company as a required SIC under Op Specs on the PC12. SkyWest didn't ask any questions about that during the interview/ logbook review during ground.
Can somebody list which opspec this is?
135 carrying passengers under IFR requires an SIC because of the regulations not the operations specifications....just to be clear. Doesn't matter if the plane is a single pilot type certificate. The opspec you find for those operators is an option to use an autopilot in lieu of an SIC. The operator can choose to exercise this option, or keep the SIC, up to them.
If it is under vfr, like mokulele often is, then the SIC must be required by the ops spec in order for him to legally log SIC, or so I'm told. I'm not sure what the opspec is called, by none of my friends at mokulele have had trouble validating their hours. They all upgrade at 1200 using at least some of those SIC hours to contribute to the total time.
There are not many part 91 operations where an SIC is required, as far as I understand.
9 or less commuter under IFR (surf air, boutique, seaport?, cape air, air choice one, etc) should all be fine. Nobody from my shop has been turned away because of this.
§135.101 Second in command required under IFR.
Except as provided in §135.105, no person may operate an aircraft carrying passengers under IFR unless there is a second in command in the aircraft.
See, not an OPSPEC, this is a FAR, your hours are protected by this reg.