Originally Posted by WEACLRS
While your DPE at the time of your commercial checkride should catch this, we had one person come into the interview with this problem. He wasn't qualified to hold the commercial certificate because he was short the required cross-country time.
Not saying that I'm in the same boat (program was too structured *bleh*), but if a pilot was in that situation, how would you remedy it? Get the hours and take a 709? Or a regular checkride? Or could you get the hours and be qualified to hold the certificate from thence forth?