N36PL
Available
CIRRUS DESIGN CORP SR20 · 2006
$250/hr wet, fuel included
- Seats
- 4
- Cruise
- 155 kt
- Burn
- 10.5 gph
Returning pilots
The certificate is still valid. Only the currency lapsed.
Whether you last flew in 2019 or 1998, an FAA pilot certificate does not expire. Getting legal again is a flight review with an instructor, plus takeoffs and landings if you plan to carry passengers. Getting comfortable again is the part worth doing properly — and moving from six-pack steam gauges to a Cirrus glass panel is a transition we run all the time.
The path back
What returning actually requires.
A flight review
One hour of ground and one hour of flight with a CFI, minimum. No written test, no checkride, no re-taking your certificate.
Passenger currency
Three takeoffs and landings in the preceding 90 days before carrying passengers — full stop at night in the same category and class.
Medical or BasicMed
Medical and BasicMed eligibility depend on individual history and current FAA requirements. Discuss eligibility with an instructor and an appropriate medical professional; a denied medical cannot simply be bypassed through sport-pilot privileges.
Glass panel transition
Avidyne displays, ADS-B traffic and weather, DFC 100 autopilot and CAPS. Typically a few hours of focused work — the flying has not changed, the information presentation has.
IFR back on the table
Instrument-rated but out of currency? An IPC with an A4-approved CFI plus approaches in an IFR-capable SR20 puts the rating back to work.
Club checkout
Aircraft-specific checkout, local procedures at KDTO and DFW-area airspace familiarization. Often folded into the same sessions as the flight review.
Realistic expectations
Most rusty pilots need 3 to 8 hours.
Pilots off for a couple of years often need only the flight review minimums. Decade-plus layoffs and pilots transitioning to glass usually land in the five-to-eight-hour range, including the checkout. Your CFI will tell you where you stand after the first flight — not before.
The fleet
Our fleet, published wet rates.
Every rate below includes fuel and comes from the same record members book against.
On the line
Our aircraft, our ramp.
Every photograph is a club aircraft at Denton Enterprise Airport.
FAQ
Common questions.
Related
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Every program below operates from the same ramp at Denton Enterprise Airport (KDTO).
