REFLECTOR: Obtaining insurance for low-time pilot

Geoff Gerhardt geoff.gerhardt at gmail.com
Tue Aug 30 17:02:05 CDT 2011


Folks,

You may remember a few months ago I was inquiring what sort of difficulty
low-time pilots had getting insurance.  I got a couple suggestions of
insurance agents, Pam at AUA and Jim at Falcon.  I've contacted both, and
here's what I've been told.  Pam has a company who will offer insurance for
pilots with <50hrs retract, and <25 in type, but requires 15hrs dual in type
and factory checkout.  It doesn't look like Jim at Falcon can help.  He
indicated that the two companies he reps require either 250hrs total time,
50hrs RG plus factory checkout, or 150hrs total time, 25hrs RG, factory
checkout.  The latter company only will only offer $500K liability and 10%
deductible.

I can probably get 15hrs in type by going down to Velocity for training and
putting in a XC or two, so I'd probably be able to qualify for the insurer
that Pam reps, but I haven't gotten a firm quote from them, yet.

Has anyone else been in this situation and able to find adequate insurance
(I'm only interested in liability and non-flying coverage)?  I'm a low time
pilot with minimal RG time (~10hrs to get complex endorsement).  I'm about
6-8 months from flying so I want to get this insurance thing figured out.

Moving to a hangar at ORH this weekend!

Thanks.

Geoff
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