What It Takes to Fly a Turboprop Aircraft 🛩️ | Pilot Hours & Experience... less than you think!

How many hours and how much experience do you need to fly a turboprop aircraft like the one I fly? Well... it might be less than you think but the answer is complicated. A number of factors determine a pilots capabilities when it comes to high performance IFR turbine powered aircraft. In this video I will explain what it took ME to learn to fly a twin turboprop Cessna Conquest IFR single pilot at only 800 hours! Pilot hours are one thing, the type of pilot hours are another. Factors such as IFR experience, twin engine flying time, and overall experience in similar aircraft (even as a copilot) are crucial! For a commercial pilot, flying a turboprop is an essential part of the career pathway to the airlines so there is a high likelihood that YOU may end up at the controls of a turboprop airplane at some point... when that is... is to be determined!

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[carterellis]

Great video, I hope to be flying the TPs some time soon. By the way I believe I seen you come into CYXC in the Conquest a couple weeks ago!

[aldohattonduran]

Excelente video excelente advise 🛬✈️👍🏻🇺🇸

[colingold]

Evan! Just recently found your videos, if you ever find yourself in my home town of golden I'd love to bring you all around the kinbasket! And some other back country😁 love the vids and your personality is sky high for going places! Was a WO1 9 year Air Cadet, biggest regret was not following my ambition and getting my power license.. your an inspiration man keep it up and pleass stay safe brother! 👌👌👌👌👌👌

[topofthegreen]

About 2000 hours. Pilot jobs are very hard to get as it is who you know they don't tell you that as there is no pilot shortage, employers can be picky.

[heavylift]

This is great advice, and it seems to be the mentality of many airlines right now on hiring us rotary guys. We have fewer hours than our fixed-wing counterparts, but what we lack in hours, we make up for in experience and control touch. We learn fast and typically we've been through many difficult flying situations in our career. Although it's not always the fastest route to a pilot career, I still advise people to check out becoming an Army helo pilot to start if they don't have a way to pay for it out of pocket. If you go Reserve or Guard, even though you have a 10 year commitment now, you can still pursue your aviation career simultaneously while also getting paid to do it. I recently got hired on to a major airline with no fixed-wing time and am now going through my fixed-wing training. Pretty awesome opportunities out there right now.

[firepilot]

Love flying the 441 Conquest 2, awesome aircraft!

[mrsaskriders]

Would love to see more explanation of everything you're doing along with the landing.

[AFO]

I got into a twin otter at around 750 total time. It's SIC and mostly VFR but still counts.

[RWalt-lpie]

What does an insurance company have to do with you earning a ppl and getting various ratings..ie instrument, complex, high performance, twin eng, turbine?? If i do not intend to pursue a commercial license to make a living flying, what are the FAA required hours to get a twin turboprop rating?

[caiolinnertel]

I have 6, 000+ hours in King Airs and they hold a special place in my heart. I own a C414A and I think the King Airs I flew (F90 and B200s) were easier. Certainly better single engine performance and more reliable. TP are just SO expensive. Insurance is the controlling interest, a low time multi pilot was looking at a C340 and his annual insurance would have been $45k he said, mine is $9K. Flying is not cheep but if you have the $ it's fun. Do be careful flying more complex aircraft before you are ready. Use a hired experienced pilot, most insurance companies will make you do that anyway but lots of times many pilots discontinue using them well before they should. Experience matters.

[PilotJoJoe]

You didn't answer your own question in the title. How many hours and what else does it take?

[sentrikegaming]

Hey Evan! I just found your channel a couple of days ago and I’ve been enjoying your videos a lot ! Out of curiosity how do you record your videos ? I’m doing my instrument and I want to be able to start my own Channel and record my progress !

[andrewgkorol]

Another awesome upload and I really do echo your thoughts. Got on a C441 with 700hrs because the right people liked me (key to success) and I had some twin, night and ifr on the resume

[jb-iksj]

What makes a bad pilot? In your opinion

[willjohnson]

I’m flying an ag plane at 500hrs this year. -11Ag motor

[coasternut]

100 hours of multi should translate to a smaller turboprop pretty well. How do you find people though? I don't have an FBO or the people skills to talk to strangers at one anyway

[tacticaladvantage]

But how exactly did you become able to afford a 1, 000, 000 dollar plane??? That’s sounds interesting to me as well

[renato-stiefenhofer-]

After over 20'000 hours of flying all kinds of a/c I have to admit: This young gentleman Capt Evan is absolutely right!! He would be the right pilot in the 747.
Regards to all of you, from

[EdwardKilner]

Please reduce music when talking. Can you improve audio quality at all?

[mtkoslowski]

To put things into perspective, in WWII, 19 year old men with fewer than 100 hours experience were flying 4 engined B17 bombers into Europe from England.

Some people today, such as Jay Leno, won’t trust such people to valet park his car at restaurants.