Hours for commercial multi

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Any_Train5161@reddit

I just finished the exact same thing ur doing, if u want any info or thoughts on how I did it PM me.

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Part 61 if you have your Commercial ASEL, you can get your multi in 5-10 hours. Once yours instructor feels you’re proficient enough to do the maneuvers, they can send you for a checkride. You pretty much just have to do slow flight/engine shut down and restart/single engine instrument approach/single engine landing/360 turns to commercial requirements. There are some others but not coming to me at the moment.

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minfremi@reddit

OP wrote initial commercial in an AMEL, not add-on.

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Low_Sky_49@reddit

To meet the requirements for an initial commercial certificate in a multi-engine land airplane, you need a minimum of 20 hours in a multi. 10 hours of dual training and 10 hours of solo (or more likely PDPIC in a twin).

Those are the legally required minimums. It may be your flight school’s experience that their applicants need closer to 30 hours to reach the needed proficiency for the practical test.

You may find it advantageous to get the commercial certificate in an ASEL, and do AMEL as an add-on somewhere that will do it in 5-10 hours.

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TxAggieMike@reddit

Reference the last paragraph, it will definitely be a cost savings.

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bhalter80@reddit

This ... 20-30 hours in a rented twin sounds expensive and a false economy.

If you want to be very efficient...do all of the training for the C/AMEL so that you get to log all of that time as complex which counts against your 10 hours of complex or TAA for C/ASEL.

Then finish your C/ASEL and take your C/AMEL the next day. All in all it will be about 10 hours of ASEL training (including your XC) and 10 hours of AMEL training

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ltcterry@reddit

Look at 61.129 (b)

You have to meet all those requirements. Some say "in a multi-engine airplane." Some do not.

What if your "100-mile, 2-hr night cross country" turns out to only 99 miles? Repeat. More hours.

You need ten hours of simulated instrument time. With at least five of them ME. You can double dip a bit, but don't abuse it. If your single engine IFR training hours are not logged correctly towards 61.129 you'll need to track down your instructor or fly more than five ME.

If you add up all the requirements realistically, what is the total you get? All the training. All the solo. Etc.

I presume you are going to do the "solo" part as "performing the duties of PIC" with an "authorized instructor." Be sure this is logged correctly or it won't count. It's not dual. The MEI is a babysitter, not there to instruct. Has to be logged correctly.

5-10 IFR

4 dual XC

4 long XC

10 solo

30 is not an unrealistic number.

Break.

u/Late_Championship353 why don't you know this already?

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jet-setting@reddit

You’re about to be a commercial pilot, why don’t you read the regs yourself?

If you’re doing all of your training in multiengine you need 20 hours of training, and 10 hours of solo or PDPIC. It can be done in less, but you have to do part of your commercial training in single engine.

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rFlyingTower@reddit

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I’m at about 200 hours at the moment and planning on doing commercial multi engine initial, not doing single engine since I’m not going for CFI, just need my commercial license to go back to my country.

The school I go to says that according to the FAA I need 30 hours of multi engine training to get a checkride, I looked at the reg and did some research and people do it at 25 hours, but the chief instructor at my school isn’t sending anyone for a checkride unless they have 30 hours at least. Is this really what the reg says or are we getting scammed for more money? If we are getting scammed and the reg doesn’t say 30 hours at least, how can I get them to send me to a checkride if I’m ready at 25 hours?

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