Instructing for a Bonanza insurance checkout.

Cessnaflyer

Cessnaflyer

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Someone came to me needing Bonanza instruction upcoming in November to satisfy insurance requirements. I used to teach in F33 and A36 Bonanzas but this one is a V35. Is this something where the insurance company wants me to be proficient in the exact type or does my previous straight tail experience still work? Also, what would be any added emphasis areas to go over in the V-tails if I were to do this checkout?
 
Doubt it.
I had zero Bo time when I did my first check out and the insurance company didn't care.
 
Douglas said:
Doubt it.
I had zero Bo time when I did my first check out and the insurance company didn't care.
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How long ago? I think insurance companies may have gottne stricter about that in recent years.

There's only one sure way to know, and it's not asking some guys on the internet (unless the some guy who answered has recent experience with the same insurance company, and may not even then).
 
MidlifeFlyer said:
How long ago? I think insurance companies may have gottne stricter about that in recent years.

There's only one sure way to know, and it's not asking some guys on the internet (unless the some guy who answered has recent experience with the same insurance company, and may not even then).
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2008.
I agree it is better just to ask the insurance company, but that was my experience.
 
I asked here because the guy that bought the aircraft headed back home to sell his Mooney today. He said he would contact me again when he came back up to pick it up with more details.
 
Cessnaflyer said:
I asked here because the guy that bought the aircraft headed back home to sell his Mooney today. He said he would contact me again when he came back up to pick it up with more details.
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I'd ask him to check. Not out of the question, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that the CFI needs to at least qualify under the open pilot warranty for an owner's insurance-required initial training.

And if it's okay, I'd read the policy very carefully. If the pilot hasn't met the insurer's requirement for PIC and neither has the instructor, who's the PIC for the flight and is there any insurance on the airplane at all for that flight since no one flying in the airplane is a qualified pilot?

I'd actually be far more worried about the insurance question than whether the instruction would count.
 
I've looked and I am covered under my employers insurance for giving instruction in privately owned Bonanza's but I didn't know what it would be like for the owner.
 
Excellent. One issue resolved. For the other...

btw, assuming it will be ok, if you don't get an answer here of some of the gotchas in a V-tail for those with straight-tail experience, see if you can find something discussed on http://www.beechtalk.com.
 
Well the King Air crowd which I frequent most, don't know how to read. I'll go try the Bo side now :) .
 
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