182 to 337 transition; wise?

[John Hoffman]

I think everyone is right in a way re mulit logging.There was a time in the 80s that the CLT rating wasnt available. Just before I took delivery of my 337 in December 1998 I heard that the CLT was coming back and made inquiries thru the local FAA office. They dug up the info and sure enough it would be available to me - even found an examiner that could do the CLT but it was clear that if I did the CLT then I would log CLT hrs. only. I decided to skip the fuss and just get a multi. at a school in their plane. Glad I did it that way, got it out of the way in a weekend and have been logging multi. hrs since. It was a good learning experience, got to learn how to declare an emergency when the critical engine that was shut down for the checkride demo wouldnt restart in the air.