Complex Aircraft Checkout Warning

[BlueNose]

This is for all the folks who haven

[Brett_Henderson]

There's a fun prallel to reality here. Designated examiners are known to spring surprises on you.

It doesn't matter if it's just private pilot checkride...if there's a piece of equipment in that airplane.. you had BETTER know how to use it ..

On this note.. if interest ever re-stirs in my Sim Flight Training ..  the complex lessons will be in the (my) Cardinal. There's no need to be proving your competance with landing gear and constant speed props in a twin engined airplane..  Complex and high-performance are endorsements.. not ratings  I can't imagine anyone learning that stuff in a twin..

[macca22au]

I did my real world multi-engine endorsement in a Baron.  The default Baron comes across as a bit 'tinny' and light in the flightsim, where the real thing is like a sports car with quality suspension to drive, but with a Mercedes interior.

The hardest adaptation was to the throttles being in the wrong place - in the centre of console not on the left like every other aircraft. , As those who have done it know, an endorsement on a twin is mainly climbing out, cruising, and landing on one engine - after a while you forget there ever was two.

At low speeds and high power there is a yaw which certainly was close to my limit of strength, while I would land off the ILS with my 'live' leg shaking.

Still I did my single engine night endorsement on an old Comanche - that's a different story.