Cheapest multi engine rates?
Posted by mcawesomek@reddit | flying | View on Reddit | 12 comments
EASA flair because I have an EASA license but looking at the USA
I'm looking for a location to build some hours (around 100 hours on a multi engine piston aircraft) I'm licensed CPL ME/IR and looking to get my foreign license validated* in the US so I can rent an aircraft as they are usually much cheaper over there.
I'm also open to looking elsewhere in the world. Just anywhere where I can build those multi hours cheap and fast.
Ideally I'd want to fly these \~100 hours in a month time. Lowest I've seen was a Cessna 310 for around 260$/h wet lease from Rocky Mountain flight school.
https://www.rmflight.com/cessna
*My foreign license validation will be on PPL basis with multi engine (land) and instrument rating just so that I can legally fly N-registered aircraft in the US.
Ckflyer13@reddit
Yea RMFS will probably be best bet or at least close. I time built there in their seminoles. Can’t remember the rate but for solo rental they want a 15 hour checkout. I only needed 15 hours so never did solo.
mcawesomek@reddit (OP)
Is 15 hours because of low time pilot? Or do they consider someone with a CPL worthy enough of just a one flight/ ~1-1.5hour checkout?
Ckflyer13@reddit
No, doesn’t matter as far as I know
Kentness1@reddit
Do you have the minimums RMFS require for that 310? You can save some $ flying their piper twins and the minimums are lower… I live in the Denver area and am checked out in their 182s actually. I will say that RMFS has the best rental prices usually, but the airframes are usually not super pretty.
I’ve also heard about some time building operations down in Florida. You could google around on that. I’ll try to remember the name of the program I heard about down there.
mcawesomek@reddit (OP)
Good thinking, I didnt take minimums into account. I thought it’d just be done after a checkout! Well I’ll have a look at some places down in florida. Thank you!
Kentness1@reddit
I think I’m thinking of Flight Fastracks. There are defiantly folks in the front range who would time build with you. But you would need to organize it yourself, as opposed to a time building place that can do a lot of that leg work.
Fit_Homework532@reddit
Glidepath in Utah offers block rates on their Seminole at like $215 dry and you can likely find a partner or two that would split it as safety pilot with you.
Apprehensive_Cost937@reddit
Why are you looking to build MEP time?
mcawesomek@reddit (OP)
Conditional job offer, I need to have a certain amount of MEP time to be considered “safe” according their insurance policy at a part 135
Apprehensive_Cost937@reddit
Ah, sorry, I got confused with all the EASA stuff, because that'd be quite unusual in Europe.
mcawesomek@reddit (OP)
Multi engine hours are especially critical for insurance approval. That being said more experience is more experience. Im considering giving this a try instead of gambling and paying for a TR with no hours and pray someone takes me after that
rFlyingTower@reddit
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EASA flair because I have an EASA license but looking at the USA
I'm looking for a location to build some hours (around 100 hours on a multi engine piston aircraft) I'm licensed CPL ME/IR and looking to get my foreign license validated* in the US so I can rent an aircraft as they are usually much cheaper over there.
I'm also open to looking elsewhere in the world. Just anywhere where I can build those multi hours cheap and fast.
Ideally I'd want to fly these \~100 hours in a month time. Lowest I've seen was a Cessna 310 for around 260$/h wet lease from Rocky Mountain flight school.
https://www.rmflight.com/cessna
*My foreign license validation will be on PPL basis with multi engine (land) and instrument rating just so that I can legally fly N-registered aircraft in the US.
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