Small Plane Rental (Recreational Flying)

Spectrum Airways is happy to provide small plane rentals. Licensed pilots can book aircraft rentals from our Burlington facility for both time building and leisure purposes. Before any licensed pilot can rent our airplanes you must first read and sign a copy of our Rules and Regulations. 

 
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Proficiency Requirements

For insurance purposes all pilots must ensure their proficiency as follows:

  • Licensed pilots with less than one hundred fifty hours total flight time must have acted as pilot-in-command, or completed a currency check on a Spectrum Airways aircraft in the past thirty days. 

  • Licensed pilots with one hundred fifty hours or more total flight time must have acted as pilot-in-command, or completed a currency check on a Spectrum Airways aircraft within the last sixty days. 

  • Recreational Pilot Permit holders with less than one hundred and fifty hours total flight time must have acted as pilot-in-command, or completed a currency check on a Spectrum Airways aircraft in the past 14 days. When total time exceeds one hundred and fifty hours, currency then becomes 30 days. 

  • Licensed pilots and Permit holders must have completed a minimum 1.0 hour long Annual Check-out with one of our Instructors in the previous 12 months. 

  • Licensed pilots and Permit Holders must complete a flight that is at least 0.5 in duration in order to be current. Currency cards will only be updated at the completion of a flight of 0.5 or more of Hobbs time. 

  • Student Pilots must have flown either dual or solo in the past fourteen days, and authorization of this flight must be made by an instructor of Spectrum Airways. Night Rating Student Pilots must have flown either dual or solo at night in the past fourteen days, and this flight must be authorized by an instructor of Spectrum Airways. Authorization of these flights are also at the discretion of the instructor on duty, pending other variables (eg. wind conditions etc.). All pilots who do not meet the above requirements will be required to complete a currency check out ride with a Spectrum Airways instructor. Duration of this flight for single engine pilots is at the discretion of the instructor on duty.