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Originally Posted by bdhill1979  That is the kind of input I am looking for, thank you. I do intend to split the time and the time here for a multi is a bit under $200 per hour. I realize that it is a fairly large sum and no I am not worth millions. My thought process on this is; I am paying approx $90 per hour for a single, if I split time in a twin at about $175 per hour it roughly equals what I am paying for single time. The idea being, pay roughly the same sum of money for hours that count three ways, towards my commercial license, towards Multi Time, and towards total time, instead of just total time. |
This isn't necessarily a bad idea... however... why not split time in the single? You're now spending $45.00 an hour and you're saving yourself a lot of money. Getting multi time isn't a bad thing by any means, but it all comes down to that whole cost benefit crap. Is it worth it money wise? I split around 60 hours of multi. I had 190 hours multi (mostly instructing time) when I got my 135 job flying a twin cessna (my current job). My company likes to see 50 hours of multi, but they've hired people with 15 (it's a relatively small company, but we do have a lot of metroliners, so it's more than just an entry level cargo job). I would've gotten the job with 130 and not had to buy the time. I did what you're thinking of doing and split the time to get to commercial mins and wish now I would have that extra money. I will say that having the 190 most likely helped me get an interview with Pinnacle... but they didn't like my lack of recency (I took a different instructing job, my 2nd instructing job, flying only singles because it was salaried... I could then afford to eat). Needless to say I didn't get the job with Pinnacle (there were probably other factors as well). No big help other than the interview experience. The other thing to think off is the quality of time. It's kinda PIC, but not really, as DE727 mentioned. You run the risk of splitting time with someone incompetent and getting yourself into a dangerous situation. You'll only have a couple hundred hours under your belt, so it'll be hard for you to step in if something goes wrong... at least it would've been for me at that point. A lot of people don't even use the hood when splitting time... you can't log that... a lot of people do, but it's not ethical. You also can't force the person you're sitting with to put the stupid hood on... what do you do in that scenario? Land and split the cost anyway? I'm not saying don't do it, you just have to figure out if the risks and the costs are worth it to you. I thought it was worth it when I had a few hundred hours and I ended up wasting my money. At the same time, I know it's worked well for a lot of other people. Just don't invest too much money in any idea until it's fairly good bet that it'll benefit you... hindsight's the only thing that'll tell you if it was the right decision. Try to make as informed and logical of a decision as you can.