Thread: Is it possible to fly a Learjet on a PPL?

The DC3 is a type rating. The HPA is meant to cover a class not a type....... But then you knew that anyway and just wanted to tell us you had a DC3 rating....

My mate flew David Cameron to Prague for the day in a King Air and it cost £10,000....

The only reason why I could see you would want to do it is if you couldn't hold a class 1. I suspect there are a few owner drivers out there but they will all be old CAA licenses. As has been said these days under the JAR regs there is no point at all not bothering with a CPL.

Quote: Ex-military jets are flown on a permit to fly and have an individual training course approved by type that each candidate undergoes. This then results in a type rating. The content of each course is judged on the operation complexity of the type. The JP as an example is a very simple VFR only permit aircraft. Not sure that there's a JP type rating. They are usually operated under an exemption granted by the CAA following an...

HPA = High Performance Aircraft?

XXPLOD - it's different in the FAA / USA system. Here, you do 14 exams for a CPL/IR. And that's after the 7 doing the PPL. In the USA, you do 1 for the PPL, 1 for the CPL, 1 for the IR and 1 for the ATPL. Here, you are given an ATPL after clocking up the hours. There, the ATPL is extra work as I mention (though you still need the 1500hrs in both cases). Also, the USA has no Class A below 18000ft, which means quite a lot of heavy iron...

Quote: Originally Posted by mad_jock Doesn't the Duke of Westminster fly his around on a PPL? cant find any info on this on google

Well it is the "Times" after all

big perhaps, but not too heavy, and not to far forward or aft!

Aircraft Grouping lease a Cessna 500 Citation for a mere £550 per hour wet. It even has a toilet apparently, I dunno how the hell they manged to fit one in.