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My instructor can't do any night flying this week, so I have a call in to Dan, the instructor with whom I did my phase check a while ago, to see if he can go up with me tonight. The rest of the week is supposed to be cloudy and rainy here, so it's likely tonight or not until next week.

This got me thinking about whether I really can expect to finish up this month. Here's where things stand:

• Aeronautical knowledge
  • Studying...


• Aeronautical experience (61.109a): For an airplane single-engine rating. Except as provided in paragraph (k) of this section, a person who applies for a private pilot certificate with an airplane category and single-engine class rating must log at least 40 hours of flight time that includes at least 20 hours (30.x?) of flight training from an authorized instructor and 10 hours (7.x?) of solo flight training in the areas of operation listed in §61.107(b)(1) of this part, and the training must include at least—
  
  
  • (1) 3 hours (3.0) of cross-country flight training in a single-engine airplane;
  
  
  
  • (2) Except as provided in §61.110 of this part, 3 hours (0) of night flight training in a single-engine airplane that includes—
    
    
    
    • (i) One cross-country flight (not done) of over 100 nautical miles total distance; and
    
    
    
    • (ii) 10 takeoffs and 10 landings (0) to a full stop (with each landing involving a flight in the traffic pattern) at an airport.
  
  
  
  • (3) 3 hours (1.x?) of flight training in a single-engine airplane on the control and maneuvering of an airplane solely by reference to instruments, including straight and level flight, constant airspeed climbs and descents, turns to a heading, recovery from unusual flight attitudes, radio communications, and the use of navigation systems/facilities and radar services appropriate to instrument flight;
  
  
  
  • (4) 3 hours (0) of flight training in preparation for the practical test in a single-engine airplane, which must have been performed within 60 days preceding the date of the test; and
  
  
  
  • (5) 10 hours of solo flight time in a single-engine airplane, consisting of at least—
    
    
    • (i) 5 hours (2.9) of solo cross-country time;
    
    
    
    • (ii) One solo cross-country flight of at least 150 nautical miles total distance, with full-stop landings at a minimum of three points, and one segment of the flight consisting of a straight-line distance of at least 50 nautical miles between the takeoff and landing locations (Done); and
    
    
    
    • (iii) Three takeoffs and three landings (1) to a full stop (with each landing involving a flight in the traffic pattern) at an airport with an operating control tower.

2 -- the night training -- ???

3 & 4 -- could go together, but I'm not as concerned about 3 since it's not new stuff, just a matter of getting the time.

5.i I hope to knock out this coming Saturday.

5.iii I hope to do sometime this week -- if no night flying tonight, I'll plan to fly this afternoon to PHF and do a few trips through the pattern there.