Can student pilot ferry plane solo XC?

Doss79 · Post by **Doss79** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:22 pm

Is there anyway for a student pilot to fly solo from one city to another if he doesn't have his sport pilot license yet? I'm real close to checkride, but I need to ferry a Cub from Dallas to San Antonio (i just bought it thanks to the current economy).

Jeff Tipton · Post by **Jeff Tipton** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:52 pm

You would need a solo endorsement in the Cub before you could consider this trip. You would also need training at each of the airports that you would be landing at while bringing the Cub home. The flying will take around fours hours plus the time on the ground. If your instructor is tail wheel endorsed I think it would be easier to hire the instructor to go with you and log dual time toward your checkout. Hope this helps.

Doss79 · Post by **Doss79** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:24 pm

Jeff Tipton wrote:You would need a solo endorsement in the Cub before you could consider this trip. You would also need training at each of the airports that you would be landing at while bringing the Cub home. The flying will take around fours hours plus the time on the ground. If your instructor is tail wheel endorsed I think it would be easier to hire the instructor to go with you and log dual time toward your checkout. Hope this helps.

I am solo endorsed and soloed out of the airport that will be my final destination. I also have flown with the instructor at his ranch near Dallas (which is what would be my departure airport). The only thing I have not done is fly from the departure airport to my final destination airport.

I'm thinking what I'll do is log my final training time as a XC to the halfway point and then return back to my instructor's airport.