Part 141 Commercial/ Part 61
 

Hello,
I have done all of my previous flight training (Private, Instrument) under part 61. Next fish to fry is commercial, my question is; since I have done my previous ratings under part 61, could I go to a part 141 school and thus only have to have 190TT to take the checkride, or would the 250TT requirement still stand? I have ~170 hours right now.

Thanks

Part 141 commercial requires 120 hours of training towards the commercial license. I've heard UND is allowed to consider Inst. and Comm. as one course, thus all Inst. training counts towards the 120 hours. That is how some people get their commercial at 190TT. I taught at a 141 school and the FAA would not allow us to do this so usually everyone did all of their ratings under 141 except for commercial. In your case you would be much better off going Part 61.

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I tried doing the same thing and at the end found out that it was both economically and practically (more flying hours, more opportunity to do cross countries, more opportunity log instrument time and at the same time more time/hours to prepare for the commercial and CFI) feasible. It was economical in that I built my time mostly in a 150. It was some of the greatest flying I did.