RussR
En-Route
Please double-check me on this. I am training a pilot for his initial Commercial certificate in a multi-engine airplane. We are exercising the provisions of "PDPIC", mute CFI, ballast CFI, whatever you want to call it, due to typical insurance reasons.
A commercial applicant is required to have 5 hours of solo/PDPIC at night (with 10 landings at a controlled field), the long solo/PDPIC XC, and 10 hours total solo/PDPIC. Any reason we couldn't do the long XC at night, make it take 5 hours and get in the controlled field landings on the same trip? (Other than being up all night?) I can't see why not. That would leave him with 5 hours during the day of basically PDPIC "checkride maneuver practice". That sounds like a more efficient use of time to me.
A commercial applicant is required to have 5 hours of solo/PDPIC at night (with 10 landings at a controlled field), the long solo/PDPIC XC, and 10 hours total solo/PDPIC. Any reason we couldn't do the long XC at night, make it take 5 hours and get in the controlled field landings on the same trip? (Other than being up all night?) I can't see why not. That would leave him with 5 hours during the day of basically PDPIC "checkride maneuver practice". That sounds like a more efficient use of time to me.