9.2 Endorsement Check Flights.
The endorsement check flights are completely optional, but they are a fun and challenging way to improve your piloting skill. When you demonstrate proficient piloting skills on an endorsement check flight, the endorsement will be noted in your pilot profile.
As the new regs are now, all the rank check flights will be flown in a B737 A320. You will attain rank using only these mentioned aircraft, even though you can fly any AAL for regular ops. If a pilot only wants to fly a B737 only and their entire career, then so be it. To broaden your horizons and piloting skills the endorsement check flights let you fly the different type of aircraft in a "test of your skills" and use of those different aircraft. A notation is made on your records you have been certified on a different aircraft. The endorsement check flights are different than rank flights, some utilize new routes. Rank advancement comes first.
In your case since you were here before the new regs came about, you had already flown the check flights which equated for the new endorsements, so were awarded those endorsements.
Hi Harold,
I am working on new endorsements files to add to our signature. It´s not a definitive list, but it will be an example...
They are stored in imgur.com like your signature. You can cancel or change.
The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.
Harold Henderson wrote: ↑04-24-2020 03:54 AM
Our endorsements used to be listed in our posts in the right pane. Where are they listed now?
The rank endorsements such as what I made for me or what Omar is making is not official AAV items. Do we have such a thing, i.e. Coffee mugs, t shirts, caps ? The screenshot contest bar takes the place of one listed Item such as what rank, or age, type of member Senior, Junior, Child or whatever.
These are yours.
Here is one place listed.
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And another.
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Keep cool Harold.
PS looks like Mike and I answered at the same time.
WLP
It was decided after being brought up in our new AAV discussons, that those check flights were redundant as the US had changed our requirements to more match the European ones, somewhat. One of those check flights have been repurposed to other endorsements
Greg Gemelli ; Might make sense to remove the Euro check rides and here's my rationale for that. When those were written there were significant differences between US and ICAO rules and airspace structure. Now, the US has fully adopted the ICAO structure, RVSM, RNAV approaches, LPV approaches, RNAV airways, RNAV SID/STARs etc...so in many ways it's not needed.
