Complex aircraft question

"C J Campbell" wrote in message ...

Yes, but if you do not get your commercial certificate in a multi-engine
aircraft first then you still have to demonstrate flying a complex aircraft
to the examiner for your single engine commercial certificate.

I wonder if this is something new. We used to do double commercials by
giving all the training in a C310 and a C140. After stepping out of
the C310 with a new hand written CP-MEL ticket, the examiner and
student would hope into the C140 taildragger and do lazy eights etc
and end up with CP-MSEL.

-Robert