Anyone need a Chicago area safety pilot?

[tlewis95]

Looking to ride along for anyone wanting to fly under hood, mainly because I was told that I could log it! (4:20AM, I dont feel like looking up how, lol)

I need some complex time so that I can rent the Arrow from the local FBO. But, would be able to log PIC in a complex aircraft, without a complex endorsement even if the guy in the left seat was under the hood?

I would be willing to ride/watch in anything you got for me, in a desperate search for cheap flight time to get to commercial requirements, which is really hard to do as a 17 year old working odd little jobs.

Let me know!

[greekpilot]

do you have your multi by any chance?

[Gumps]

Hey Trace, we've never met but I fly out of Sky Soaring and have seen your dad speak many times and have seen you around at the seminars. It's good to see you coming up in the ranks. You've got the right idea building time as a safety pilot. You're suspicions are correct though, you'll need the complex endorsement to be a safety pilot in a complex aircraft. (61.31e,1)
Here's the trick.

1. Find an instructor that you know at the FBO that will fly an hour or so with you in the arrow, and give you the necessary ground instruction. Log both flight and ground instruction.
2. With that you can get the endorsement.
3. Then you can be a safety pilot in complex aircraft.

You can even do the flight part in a sim/FTD. Just tell the instructor what you're up to and they should go along with it if they know you well and you can handle the aircraft. (Of course as a fellow glider pilot I know you'll do just fine!)
If the fbo requires a lengthy check out (10 hours or so) make sure to apply that time to a rating, make cross country flights under the hood, etc. Try to kill as many birds with the proverbial stone as possible.

[tlewis95]

Gumps,

Ya that sounds like a good idea! But I still need someone to ride with after the endorsement, lol.

Speaking of gliders at Sky Soaring, I am going to be flying that little memorial day race that is going on in a week or so.

Will you be out there?

[jhugz]

I may be wrong and a cfi pleez correct me but to safety pilot you only have to have the necessary ratings...and an endorsement is not a rating...thus you can act as a safety pilot of a complex aircraft even if you don't have a complex endorsement