Not only that, but if you get an ATP-SE before you have to take the new split test, you won't have to worry about 61.156 and the CTP business, either -- practical test only to add an ME rating to an existing ATP-ASEL/S. Further, if you take the current ATP written before August 1, 2014, you'll avoid all that, too, as long as you take an ATP practical test before that written test expires at the end of the 24th calendar month. So, if you take the current ATP written in July 2014, you'll be good to take the ATP practical test for SE or ME or both as long as you get one of them done before the end of July 2016.
You have to fly at the same level on an ATP-ASES additional rating ride as you did on your original ATP ride in a twin -- no more, no less.
That depends on when you took the ATP written. You'll have 24 calendar months from that date to complete an ATP-Airplane practical test, after which any additional ATP ratings will be practical test only. So, if you take the current ATP written in July 2014 (without doing the 61.156 CTP stuff), you'll have until the end of July 2016 to take an ATP-Airplane category practical test (any class) and be done with it. If you don't take the current written by July 31, 2014, you will not be able to take the ATP-AME written without doing the 61.156 CTP. The only ATP written you could take after that date without the CTP would be the ATP-ASE written, and that would only be good for ATP-ASEL/S -- you'd then need to do the CTP and the ATP-AME written before adding the AMEL/S class.
An ATP-ASEL/S additional rating practical test -- and that's it (no additional written).
Assuming you took the current non-class-specific ATP written before August 1, 2014, all you would need do is to take an ATP-ASEL/S additional rating practical test. However, if didn't take the ATP written until after July 31, 2014, and you had taken only the ATP-ME written, I guess you'd need to do the ATP-SE written before the SE practical test -- it's not clear in the rules I've read.
Yes. However, on the day I took my ATP in a twin, I had my Cheetah there, and for an extra $150, the examiner went up for a couple of approaches in the Cheetah and I had an ATP-ASMEL, not just ATP-AMEL with Commercial privileges for ASEL.
Okay, here is my reason. The way I look at it, I should have another 30 years left in me before it is time to do other things. With the VLJ concepts there are and will be in the future people designing single engine jets. Those that wish to offset costs may want to put those aircraft on an operating certificate. Look at the Eclipse, there are several operators using them. It will be a matter of time when some operators will be approached to manage a SE VLJ. Maybe not within the next 5 years but by the time retirement is at my door, I am sure of it. Those of us that have the rating may have that extra feather in our cap when the chips are down.That was my question too.
Just make sure you get the written done before August 1, 2014, and complete the ATP-SE within 24 calendar months thereafter, or you'll have to do the 61.156 CTP business and take the not-yet-released ATP-ME written as part of your ME add-on/type rating training.
