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High Performance & Complex endorsements

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If you have a multiengine rating, do you still need the High Performance & Complex Endorsements?

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  1. Odai Ayyad on May 14, 2018

    Dear Charles

    1- Complex
    concerning the multi engine rating if you have it (If the Airplane has Retractable Landing Gear , Flaps and constant speed propeller control ) then you dont need a complex as it will be automatically given to you by your instructor.

    2- High Performance
    If the Multi Engine Airplane you flew and you are rated at has engines that each one of them produce more than 200 horse power then you should also have that in your logbook, however some Multi – Engine airplanes which are used for training these days Such as the PA44 has an engine power for each engine of 180HP which is less then 201 Horse power so you dont have a high performance in this case

    In short words

    Complex Airplane ( A plane which has Retractable Landing Gear , Flaps and Controllable pitch propeller or Constant speed Propeller)

    High Performance Airplane (any airplane that it’s engine produce more than 200 Horse power)

    so if your airplane has the the above then you should have both , if your airplane only has the complex then you should only have the complex Endorsement and if your airplane has each one of it’s engine produce more than 200 horse power then you also should have high performance Endorsement

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  2. Kris Kortokrax on May 14, 2018

    I think what he was asking is if, for example, he took his multiengine practical test in an airplane such as an Aztec (250 HP engines), does he need the endorsements for complex & high-performance to be written in his logbook or does the completion of the practical test implicitly confer the privileges of the endorsements without them having been written in his logbook.

    The answer is that the endorsements must still be recorded. As a result of training given, your instructor should have placed these endorsements in your logbook. Per 61.47(b), the examiner is not the PIC for the practical test. The wording in 61.31(e) & (f) states that you may not act as PIC without the endorsements. So, without the endorsements, you would not have been able to take the practical test, unless the DPE agreed to act as PIC. Few DPEs are willing to take that responsibility.

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  3. Charles22 on May 14, 2018

    Oday, Kris,

    Thanks to both of you for your replies.

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