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Originally Posted by Doug Taylor Kinda.
The Beech 1900 is a single-pilot certified aircraft.
My type rating says "Beech 1900 - SIC required" because Skyway wouldn't perform the single pilot checkride... Or something like that. B767Driver would have more information. |
The 'old timers' used to get the single pilot type. The training program wasn't much back in the day...commuters were Part 135...and the training was basically to go out fly some approaches and when the check pilot felt the applicant was ready...administer the type ride.
'One level of safety' came along...all commuters certified as Part 121 carriers...(for all who were flying commuters at that time...it was an interesting transition)...the training program actually had a syllabus that required the F/O to participate in formal procedures...and that negated Captain applicants the option of an unrestricted type. It was probably a good idea...because for most applicants it was their first type rating...a very stressful rating ride with all of the Part 121 stuff thrown in it...and the success rate was much higher with an SIC participating. For the unrestricted type...the check pilot could do absolutely nothing for the applicant.
An interesting topic...the newer instructors and checkpilots still has the restricted type rating. Most instruction was done in the airplane...so an instructor would fly with new hires that had not yet passed the F/O proficiency check...so there was some question as to whether the new hire was a qualified SIC. Since training was Part 91...any warm body counted as a legal SIC and the flying was deemed legal even though the instructor had the restricted type. So here's an example where a pilot could log SIC time in a single pilot type certificated airplane under Part 91...the captain's restriction would necessitate an F/O.
I think the J31 was the same as the BE1900...it always makes for an interesting conversation everytime you get a new type rating or a proficiency check pilot looks at your certificates every time you take a recurrent checkride.