Those of you with your commercial ticket, how long did it take you?

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Just curious about how long it took you to finish from start to finish, if you were 141 or 61, how many times a week you flew, if you took longer flights or more frequent shorter flights, etc.

I was hoping to get mine done over the summer (I'm part 141), and get my CFI, CFII, and MEI done this fall semester. A lot harder to get those hours done than I thought, so looking like that's not going to happen unless it doesn't take a whole lot of flying to get your CFI and CFII done (I know there are technically no flight requirements per say). I need about 40 hours of instruction and 49 hours of solo time still to get my commercial done. I work full time so that's half the battle, Maryland weather can at times be the other half (though I finally will get my instrument ticket next Friday if all goes well so that should help a little).
 
Initial commercial single took me ~4 months. I did the multi add on in a weekend. Both 61 and few about once a week for the single
 
FLYGUYRY said:
Just curious about how long it took you to finish from start to finish, if you were 141 or 61, how many times a week you flew, if you took longer flights or more frequent shorter flights, etc.

I was hoping to get mine done over the summer (I'm part 141), and get my CFI, CFII, and MEI done this fall semester. A lot harder to get those hours done than I thought, so looking like that's not going to happen unless it doesn't take a whole lot of flying to get your CFI and CFII done (I know there are technically no flight requirements per say). I need about 40 hours of instruction and 49 hours of solo time still to get my commercial done. I work full time so that's half the battle, Maryland weather can at times be the other half (though I finally will get my instrument ticket next Friday if all goes well so that should help a little).
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Why would you need 40 hours of instruction toward the commercial?
 
I was also working full time, did it pt 61, using my own plane for a good bit of it, CPL, IFR, SES, SEL with most all my non SES hours tailwheel, a little over a year.

I'd do some major cross countires if I were you and also try to make yourself stand out from every other greenhorn CPL.
 
James331 said:
I was also working full time, did it pt 61, using my own plane for a good bit of it, CPL, IFR, SES, SEL with most all my non SES hours tailwheel, a little over a year.

I'd do some major cross countires if I were you and also try to make yourself stand out from every other greenhorn CPL.
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Yup, thanks for the advice! That's what I was thinking too but not sure what looks better, more flights but shorter, or longer XCs but fewer of them.
 
FLYGUYRY said:
Yup, thanks for the advice! That's what I was thinking too but not sure what looks better, more flights but shorter, or longer XCs but fewer of them.
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Hands down longer xcs, like fly coast to coast, or down into Mexico, up to AK, etc.
 
After I got the instrument rating, I started on my commercial multi. Thanks to a hurricane coming through Florida, it took me 5 weeks to get multi commercial. For the single commercial add on, it took 3 flights, but it took a week to get scheduled with a designated examiner.

As for hours, just get them. Early on I had more cross country time than most pilots of my experience level and the first few employers took note of that.
 
I did mine Part 61. I have been a private pilot for many years and had the minimums covered, and just had to do a few flights to learn the maneuvers for the checkride.
 
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