Mon Nov 20, 2017 5:57 pm
#1572726
I'm going to renew my SEP rating on my UK CAA licence - it's been expired a few years. The retraining and proficiency check will be done in a 152 (a plane I have never flown before) - a tricycle.
I did my PPL on a Beagle Pup and IMC and night on a Warrior - both tricycle.
In my logbook I have some 400 hrs of tailwheel experience (Jodels and Kitfox) but of course I never had formal tailwheel differences training, it didn't exist.
Do I retain Grandfather rights on tailwheel or as my rating has expired, will I have to do the differences training? Anyone know please?
I'm thinking of getting an SD-1 Minisport tailwheel SSDR microlight. I have about 60 hours on the tailwheel Kitfox Mk 2 that I built ca 1990. At the time that was group A but later on it could have been a microlight, quite a few of them were reclassified thus when the 450kg rule came in. It met the stall speed requirement and MTOW was 430kg. Have I any chance of that counting as Grandfather 3 axis microlight rights?
If I have to do the microlight differences training, what does it include and how long does it take? I can't find any details anywhere. I guess it's about the things that caused lots of Kitfox grief in those days - energy management, gust sensitivity and so on. (I was helped in those areas by gliding experience, especially K8.)
The only place locally I could do the micro diff training would use a tricycle C42. I've flown one of those (not keen!) and I don't think it would have much in common with the SD-1, probably less than the Kitfox.
Thanks for advice!
I did my PPL on a Beagle Pup and IMC and night on a Warrior - both tricycle.
In my logbook I have some 400 hrs of tailwheel experience (Jodels and Kitfox) but of course I never had formal tailwheel differences training, it didn't exist.
Do I retain Grandfather rights on tailwheel or as my rating has expired, will I have to do the differences training? Anyone know please?
I'm thinking of getting an SD-1 Minisport tailwheel SSDR microlight. I have about 60 hours on the tailwheel Kitfox Mk 2 that I built ca 1990. At the time that was group A but later on it could have been a microlight, quite a few of them were reclassified thus when the 450kg rule came in. It met the stall speed requirement and MTOW was 430kg. Have I any chance of that counting as Grandfather 3 axis microlight rights?
If I have to do the microlight differences training, what does it include and how long does it take? I can't find any details anywhere. I guess it's about the things that caused lots of Kitfox grief in those days - energy management, gust sensitivity and so on. (I was helped in those areas by gliding experience, especially K8.)
The only place locally I could do the micro diff training would use a tricycle C42. I've flown one of those (not keen!) and I don't think it would have much in common with the SD-1, probably less than the Kitfox.
Thanks for advice!