Who has a night rating?

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.

Jose

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"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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"S Green" wrote in message
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"Paul Sengupta" wrote in message
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Of course, the automatic-engine-roughner also comes into force
at night.

Paul

And when you cross the Channel

Actually I was coming back from Guernsey (to Cardiff) in a Cherokee 140
one day, and it was very hazy. Every time I checked the carb heat it sounded
like I was picking up carb ice (and I was up to every minute or so, or maybe
less...). In the end I kept the carb heat on until I'd crossed the coast and
it
became less hazy.

Paul

"John Clonts" wrote in message
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"David Brooks" wrote in message
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To the above
cautions, I'd add: learning how to detect clouds (with and without city
lights underneath) and *really* listening to the current reports from
Fligh****ch. A/FD reading skills are also important - both the airports
I
used have traps for occasional night fliers.

Hello David,

Please elaborate-- what airports, what traps, and what information in the
A/FD is useful in avoiding those traps?

The displaced threshhold on Kelso 12 being unlit at night. I forget the
details of what the book says, but clearly it's tempting to land short.

Paine has a dual pattern for its runway (only one is open) after the tower
closes, and small planes fly a left pattern for 16R. To be fair, this is
announced on the ATIS, but that doesn't seem to help always: the plane
coming after me called in for a left pattern for 34L.

-- David Brooks

On 5 Mar 2004 12:16:15 -0800, (Brien K.
Meehan) wrote:

"Marc Lattoni" wrote in message news:Kmw1c.128621$Hy3.30256@edtnps89...

Just wondering, how many VFR only pilots have and USE a night rating?

About half of my non-training hours between getting my PPL and
Instrument Rating were at night. I prefer flying at night.

And lastly don't forget the first rule: In the event of an engine
failure at night wait til you reach 200 ft.then turn on the landing
light. If you don't like what you see, turn it off.

Ed Sullivan