"Teacherjh" wrote in message
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But I've never really understood the point of the training XC requirements
for the commercial certificate.


I can understand XC requirements and training requirements, but I can't
make
head or tail out of the wording:
"10 hours of solo flight in a single engine airplane ON THE AREAS OF
OPERATION
LISTED IN 61.127(b)(1)... which includes... a cross country flight..."

61.127(b)(1) includes stalls, slow flight, navigation, takesoffs and
landings..
stuff like that. Well, (except for stalls) how else do you fly? And as
for
stuff like slow flight and emergency procedures, you're supposed to do
this ON
YOUR CROSS COUNTRY?

Of course not, but that's not what the rules read.

Hm, not really. FAR 61.129a4 says your 10 solo hours must cover the listed
areas of operation (presumably meaning all of them), and must include a
300-mile XC flight. But it doesn't say that the XC flight has to cover all
the listed areas of operation.

--Gary

Jose

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