gr8vu

Thanks...didn't know that--much better than a 2 hour drive plus bridge tolls to go the FSDO for an appt that I can't even get. Guess I'll pass on the L-300 type.

Anyone know if I can renew my CFII a year early (prior to the 2 year point). I know it will reset the date but I am retiring as an AF IP in June and would be nice not to have to do the online course for 2 more years versus next year when it is normally due.

DWK1000

Yes, you can take a copy of your log book, your check ride paperwork (I'd bring a copy of your med cert, but don't think it was required) and get a BE-200 type added to your existing license. Good luck!

hypoxia

If you are talking a type rating then Yes, I would get it added to your ticket!

I signed up with these guys 10 years ago for a lifetime CFI renewal course(if they don't go out of business). They also process the paperwork for $25. They allow me to renew three months early. Listen to the video.

https://www.americanflyers.net/fligh...ne_renewal.htm

e6bpilot

Wow. That's awesome.

You are probably correct. Most mil guys don't bother too much with their private license since they can get a commercial right out of flight school. I have never even thought about it.

rickair7777

In theory yes. The reality is that insurance will typically drive any turbine pilot to at least the instrument rated CPL level.

gr8vu

I too paid for american flyers over a decade ago and I use it when I have to renew when I am at staff and not currently flying (no current check ride). But my question is since I am a current IP, can I renew now at the 1 year point so that I can push the 6 hours of CBT 2 years out versus doing it a year from now. I am not in my 3 month renew window until next spring.

Regarding pulling up FAA regs and using them to guide an FAA examiners decisions--this never worked very well in my few cases. Some just seem to interpret things differently and/or are ex military or know the military system and are able to make it work.

For my case above, one examiner expected me to buy civilian time in a learjet (thousands of dollars) and do a civilian ATP checkride, another wanted me to just get V1 cuts done in a civilian sim (500 dollars), another said it couldn't be done, and I finally flew 800 miles to a FSDO that gave me the checkride himself and military comped me for everything based on air force sims/checkrides and FAA testing. I used the same reg references for all four of these and couldn't get another to see it the way another saw it.

hypoxia

If you go to the American Flyers link and register as a returning student it will let you do it but it tells you that your date resets. Did you checkout the link?

In regards to the second half of your post, I thought you could get the L300 type rating added at commercial privilege level with just paperwork, no sims, no checkrides just present your Air Force training records.

Duksrule

Thanks folks a lot of good info. Any idea if a sympathetic DPE can sign off the type or does it have to be the FSDO?

totaldigger

This correct. All you have to do is take a copy of your mil checkride and proof that you have 10 hours PIC.

The only addition I have is that type ratings aren't restricted to commercial privileges.

8900.1 Vol. 5, Ch 2, Sec 19, Conduct a Pilot Type Rating Certification
"An aircraft type rating may be added to a Private Pilot, Commercial Pilot, or ATP Certificate. However, type rating practical tests are conducted to a single standard for all certificate levels. Regardless of the grade of certificate held, an applicant must meet the standards for a type rating in the ATP and/or type rating practical test standards (PTS). All type ratings within category and class held on a superseded certificate are carried forward to the new certificate level without further testing. For military pilots applying under the provisions of part 61, § 61.73, a type rating may be upgraded to the ATP Certificate level."

E2CMaster

Is there a time limit of how far back you can add a type?

I have a bunch of H-60B time, last I flew it was 2006, and it's equivalent to an S-70 from what I have been told.

Also, doubt it, but is there an E-2C type equivalent?