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What is most interesting, in all this, is that while the Skymaster has been out of production for DECADES (oh, that hurt), the first pressurized twin in ages is now entering production, and it is CLT. So, what do those folks do when they transition from the old 210 to their new A500? Go rent an Apache, get dual in a plane they will never fly?? Here, spend a million, and oh, BTW, you got to go someplace to learn to fly a multi??

I did my conventional in TX, as I wrote, in Travel Air's, which are a bit better than the apache. However, it was August, and TX, and we almost always had 3 people in the plane. For the checkride, you feather the prop, then the only approved method for restarting was DIVE until you get to 180, then unfeather. Talk about exciting!!

On the plus side, if you get your conventional ME rating, when you go for instrument, it will not be CLT limited. Also, you can do the Instrument stuff in your plane.

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