Getting Checked Out After Private Pilot?

In the US, you could legally jump into any single engine fixed gear plane with less than 200 HP and take off.

The regulations do not really have the final say so as to what you fly: the insurance companies do. As a result, the FBO renting you the plane will have their own policies on aircraft checkouts. Any time you rent from an different FBO you will need to be checked out by their instructor.

Generally, to get checked out in a new type takes an hour or two - you go with the instructor and do stalls and slow flight, then do some landings. If the plane has some characteristic that makes is very different from what you have flown before, like a glass cockpit, a checkout may take a little more time.

As to whether a 152 check out is valid in a 150, it would only matter if an FBO had both on the rental flight line. Then it would be up to the FBO's rental policy.

I know of one FBO that has a Cherokee 140, Warriors, and Archers. These are all Piper PA-28's, with horsepower ranging from 140 to 180. Their policy is that a checkout in any of these types is valid for all PA-28's of the same or lesser power: a Warrior check out covers the Cherokee 140, but not the Archers, an Archer checkout covers all of their fixed gear PA-28's

In the USA, once you have your private pilot's certificate, it's just three easy steps, pretty much anywhere in the country:

Step 1: Find an FBO who has a Cessna 172 (or other single engine standard category aircraft) available for you to rent.

Step 2: Schedule a "Familiarization & Check Ride" with one of their certified flight instructors (CFI) so you can meet their insurance requirements (usually takes about 45 minutes)

Step 3: Reserve the airplane for the day and time you want it and go flying!

Note: You will have to repeat this process for each FBO and different aircraft type that you want to fly.

In the USA, as a licensed private pilot with a single engine land rating, you can legally fly any other non-jet single engine aircraft under 12,500 pounds gross weight. If it has retractable gear, a controllable propeller, or is 200+ horsepower, then you need endorsements in your logbook for complex and high performance aircraft. Neither a Cessna 150 nor a 172 fall into that category, so you'd automatically be legal to fly them.

However, no one is going to rent one to you without a proper familiarization and check-out. Each flight school and FBO has their own policy about this (and insurance requirements), so you should be asking your flight school or flight instructor what their specific policy is. They may not require any extra instruction in the 150, but they are likely to require several hours in the 172 in order to meet insurance requirements. They may have a little in-house written test you need to pass after studying the pilots operating handbooks.

You said "I'm about to get my private pilot's license", but by asking this question it's very clear that you're not ready to pass an oral examination, which means that you're not at all about to get your license. If you fail the oral portion, you do not get to do the flight portion of a private pilot practical test, no matter how well you might be able to fly.

One of the things you're going to be quizzed on by the examiner about is the privileges of a private pilot. This includes what aircraft you are legally allowed to fly and what additional training is required to be able to fly other aircraft than what you've trained in. You'd better start hitting the books and memorizing the portions of FAR Part 61, 67, and 91 that pertain to Private Pilots. If you don't have the answer to a particular question memorized, you'd damned well better know where to look up the answer quickly, or you'll probably be handed the dreaded Pink Slip if you stumble on too many questions.

Finally, it's "another" or "a whole other", not "whole nother". You have been to grade school, right? If so, try to show it.

Hey.

1. In Israel you can do type rating, if you got license on Cessna 152, you can do type rating for Cessna 172. You have to fly 4 hours at least on the Cessna 172, with instructor of course, and then you'll have a final internal test. I guess that in your country is the same as here.

2. I don't think so, it's like Cessna 172 and Cessna 180, you can fly Cessna 152 only I think.

Good luck.

1. You could ask your CFI.

2. Most FBOs have a minimum hours requirements (for 150 to 170 it should only be a flight with a CFI). Generally insurance has more to do with it than the FARs.

you should have learned this in ground school, plus osmosis hanging around the airport.

in canada your ppl comes with a blanket type rating for all non-complex non-high-performance light single land airplanes.

while the vast majority of my flight time is in cherokee 140s, theoretically i could jump in, say, a 172 and fly it. in practice (even if it was mine) i'd need to do a checkride. this usually means a few circuits, some upper-air work, and emergency procedures. other than common sense, it also has insurance implications.

Once your have your ppl your certified to fly any single egined aircraft no training required.

as long as it's single engine land under 12,500 pounds you can fly it.