182 to 337 transition; wise?

[hharney]

Boy, I guess I really opened the can and the worms came out. I am not positive of this but here is how I understand it.

The log book time is ME. Period. The license is ME - CLT. I am not leagal to fly a conventional twin. I have to fly 25 hours with an instructor and ride with an examiner to have the CLT limitation removed from my license. As far as the time logged it's ME. I do not distinguish it as ME - CLT just ME.

Earnie, your question should be answered with 1,000 hours ME.

What I was suggesting was that you should take your initial training for ME in a conventional twin so that you have a standard ME license. I love my Skymaster but I also love airplanes that have other configurations. I just think it's better to get the full rating.

At one time the FAA was going to pull the CLT rating. Then the only choice would be a standard ME which a Skymaster would not qualify for the training aircraft.

That's just my interpitation but I could be wrong.