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Originally Posted by Sluggo_63
I'm prepping myself to take the ATPSEL to upgrade my PPSEL to ATP standards.
Has anybody done this already? I'm reading the PTS and I have some questions I'd like to PM you about, or I can post them here if others would be interested.
Thanks,
Sluggo63
I did it many years ago as a cheap option to stop my ATP written from expiring. It is basically an instrument competency checkride with perhaps a steep turn but no lazy eights or chandelles. Just instrument work, circle to land, missed approach, hold, non precision approach, ILS, etc. It was in a complex aircraft (retract gear) and perhaps a high performance (>200 HP) so I had to have those endorsements but can't remember? The ground work was a lot of Instrument chart quizzing about symbology, regulations, takeoff alternate, alternates, holding speeds, airspace, O2 reqs, VOR check, pitot static check, transponder check. etc. Seem to remember filing an IFR flight plan, getting a clearance and departing in the IFR system. Very straight forward!