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Originally Posted by triplec76  This would be especially true if you were renting somewhere mountainous when you have no mountain flying experience. My DPE touched on that quite a bit during our oral since he knew I was moving to the eastern midwest a few weeks after the checkride. He wanted to stress that my students would now be within a full tank of the mountains, so it wouldn't hurt to stress this more than I would with a student from where I was living at the time, Iowa. |
That's true. In fact, there are areas where there are special checkout requirements. Many FBOs on the Colorado plains will not let you take their rentals into the mountains without a specific mountain checkout. Some FBOs in souther California will not let you take their planes to Catalina without a Catalina checkout. I once came across a school on Long Island that required a water checkout before letting you take their planes out to Block Island or the Massachusetts Cape islands. And the same is probably true in other places as well.