Complex aircraft question

"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
"Eric Stearns" wrote in message
I've been out of the flight training business for several years
now...but it seems to me that there used to be a 60-day limit on the
multi then single commercial.

I don't think there ever was such a limit. Perhaps you're thinking of the
requirement that *some* kind of training for the commercial needs to have
been done within the past 60 days? That requirement existed before, and
still exists today. Note that the countdown starts at the most recent dual
flight, not the first commercial checkride.

seems that what Eric describes is a way to 'optimize' the amount of
training you take before the checkride; never thought of that one :-)
I took my time (about 9 months between taking my commercial multi- and
then taking the commercial single add-on -- I didn't need either, was
doing that just for the heck of it), but then I did take additional
training (which I needed to nail down these darn manoevers :-) Note that
although using a complex is not required in that case (to take the
commercial single add-on), I believe that it is still up to the examiner
who can still require it if I am not mistaken (to try to avoid surprises,
I went with the same examiner for both check rides, and did ask him ahead
of time about his interpretation of the rules and if he would accept the
Citabria for the add-on);

--Sylvain