Cessna 210 Endorsement

Currently I have both FAA and EASA licenses, and they have some differences related to maintaining currency or set of endorsements.

Some airplanes require a separate type rating. Usually that applies to large aircrafts like Boeing 737 or Pilatus pc12, requires some training and an exam. The ratings are being added to the license. Some aircrafts do not require a type rating – for example, the most light piston airplanes.

Light single-engine piston airplanes are usually covered by the ASEL rating (Airplane Single Engine Land) for FAA and SEP rating (Single Engine Piston) for EASA.

In the FAA world it is usually enough to have the ASEL rating for all light piston airplanes. Some endorsements could be required as well, for example, high performance or tailwheel, but basically that’s it. For EASA (at least in Czech Republic and Poland) you need an endorsement for each model family (for example, Cessna 150/152 and Piper PA-28R) to act as a PIC. This “endorsement” does not go to a license, only to one’s logbook.

For getting this endorsement you need to go through some theoretical and practical training, and at the end the instructor flies a final check and sign you off.

I have some ideas about my next job options, and for that I need the endorsement for Cessna 210. Czech school where I made my license has one Cessna 210 with a pressurized cabin and a turbocharged engine. I made it in about 3 hours – it is still a single engine piston airplane even though it is heavier, faster and more difficult to fly than, for example, Cessna 182.

Actually it flies almost like Cessna 172RG, but as I already said, it is heavier and much more powerful. The flight controls are more sensitive, the airplane climbs much faster and requires much more precise actions on a landing. But basically it is all similar, and it is still able to take-off and land on very short fields.

Cessna 210 is not just a trainer. It is a real workhorse, and it’s better to nail the piloting skills before jumping into her cockpit. But she is nice and beautiful, and I really missed flying!


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Milestones

04/09/2017: My First Flight
04/25/2017: EASA PPL written exam (6 exams passed)
05/21/2017: Radio Operator Certificate (Europe VFR)
05/22/2017: EASA PPL written exam (all passed)
05/26/2017: The First Solo!
05/28/2017: Solo cross-country >270 km
05/31/2017: EASA PPL check-ride
07/22/2017: EASA IFR English
08/03/2017: 100 hours TT
12/04/2017: The first IFR flight
12/28/2017: FAA IR written
02/16/2018: FAA IR check-ride
05/28/2018: FAA Tailwheel endorsement
06/04/2018: FAA CPL long cross-country
06/07/2018: FAA CPL written
07/16/2018: FAA CPL check-ride
07/28/2018: FAA CPL ME rating
08/03/2018: FAA HP endorsement
06/03/2019: EASA ATPL theory (6/14)
07/03/2019: EASA ATPL theory (11/14)
07/15/2019: FAA IR IPC
07/18/2019: FAA CPL SES rating
08/07/2019: EASA ATPL theory (done)
10/10/2019: EASA NVFR
10/13/2019: EASA IR/PBN SE
11/19/2019: Solo XC > 540 km
12/06/2019: EASA CPL
12/10/2019: EASA AMEL
02/20/2020: Cessna 210 endorsement
08/30/2021: FAVT validation
05/27/2022: TCCA CPL/IR written
05/31/2022: Radio Operator Certificate Canada