On 24 May 2005 23:09:01 -0700, wrote:


Okay, I've decided to start on my commercial, and after looking at
61.129 I have painfully accepted the fact that the 300nm cross country
really needs to be vfr, solo. That means long trips I've done on
instrument flight plans (imc or vmc) won't cut it, and more painfully,
long trips I've done with my girlfriend and climbing buddies (non pilot
passengers) are also not acceptable.

Perhaps I'm reading it wrong, but I don't read 61.129(a)(4)(i) as
specifying the flight conditions, just the distance and that it has to
be solo. The VFR notations are with the dual day/night flights.

What's confused me about 61.129(a)(4) is that it says "solo flight in
the areas of operation listed in 61.127(b)(1)". Is this something
like the PPL where you have to get an instructor to sign off on it to
prove it was done within 61.127(b)(1), still wiping out any flights
done previously from consideration?