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FAA PPL night flight requirement - does it have to be DUAL?
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:11:00 +0100, Peter
wrote: Reading FAR/AIM 2004 it isn't entirely clear to me because different sections refer to day and night cross country, and I don't think the description of a day cross country applies to the night flight; the distances are 150nm and 100nm respectively. I have night flights with an instructor which exceed 100 miles in total distance, and I have a solo night flight which exceeds 100nm which was done between two airports whose direct line spacing is 119nm. I suspect that the information on the basis of which I did the last flight was bogus and I don't meet the FAA PPL requirement. Can anyone suggest the FAR/AIM 2004 sections which could clarify this? You want the FAR, 61.109(a), paragraphs 2 and 2(i) - "Except as provided in 61.110 of this part, 3 hours of night flight training in a single-engine airplane that includes (i) One cross country flight of over 100 nautical miles total distance; and (ii) 10 takeoffs and 10 landings to a full stop (with each landing involving a flight in the traffic pattern) at an airport." You meet the night cross country requirement with either flight listed above. There's no requirement for a solo night cross country of any distance in the regs. If you've done 10 night takeoffs and landings you meet the requirements for that part of the reg. The long solo cross-country (150nm) is 61.109(a)(5)(ii) - 150nm, 3 stops, one segment of which needs to be between 2 airports 50NM apart. If you happened to do this at night, great - the reg doesn't say it has to be done during the day, but the solo flight mentioned above doesn't count unless it was over 150NM (the 119NM apart meets the 50NM distance, but not the total flight distance and 3 landings). Luck, P |
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