How to obtain 500 hours X-C for 135 mins???
08-08-2007, 04:02 PM
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How to obtain 500 hours X-C for 135 mins???
Just wondering how some of the freightdogs here met the 500 hours X-C and 100 hours night for 135 IFR requirements??
I've been considering flying freight to sharpen my skills.....
I've been considering flying freight to sharpen my skills.....
08-08-2007, 06:36 PM
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If you really read the regs, the X-C requirement for 135 isn't the same as X-C for a rating. X-C for in this case is defined as anytime you depart at one airport, and land at another, regardless of distance, using pilotage, dead-reckoning, radio navagation, or any combination of the above. So basically if you're flight instructing, hit up different airports for touch-n-goes. The whole flight counts. On avg, 90% of people can easily hit the 500 by the time they hit 1200TT. Same thing with the night and inst. times. As long as you aren't a strict VFR and only hitting one airport, you're fine.
08-08-2007, 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Ewfflyer
If you really read the regs, the X-C requirement for 135 isn't the same as X-C for a rating. X-C for in this case is defined as anytime you depart at one airport, and land at another, regardless of distance, using pilotage, dead-reckoning, radio navagation, or any combination of the above. So basically if you're flight instructing, hit up different airports for touch-n-goes. The whole flight counts. On avg, 90% of people can easily hit the 500 by the time they hit 1200TT. Same thing with the night and inst. times. As long as you aren't a strict VFR and only hitting one airport, you're fine.
08-08-2007, 07:27 PM
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the atp you do not have to land though, so once again it will require a cfi but when you do your approaches with students space out your airports so the last one happens to be 50.1 miles away from home base, shoot the approach, go missed and return and repeat 250 times
08-08-2007, 10:51 PM
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Originally Posted by cfii2007
Just wondering how some of the freightdogs here met the 500 hours X-C and 100 hours night for 135 IFR requirements??
I've been considering flying freight to sharpen my skills.....
I've been considering flying freight to sharpen my skills.....
08-09-2007, 01:22 PM
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Get a job as an SIC for one of the on demand freight companies. That's what I did, though I had over 500 cross country and 100 hrs of night before I started. I got alot of that from flying traffic watch, I would just do a touch and go at another airport every day. I would think the hardest on for most to get would be the 75 hours of actual required.:radar:
08-09-2007, 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by RedGuy
It has to be a minimum of 50 hours of actual IFR. The other 25 can be simulated.
135.243
(c) Except as provided in paragraph (a) of this section, no certificate
holder may use a person, nor may any person serve, as pilot in command of an
aircraft under IFR unless that person--
(1) Holds at least a commercial pilot certificate with appropriate category
and class ratings and, if required, an appropriate type rating for that
aircraft; and
(2) Has had at least 1,200 hours of flight time as a pilot, including 500
hours of cross country flight time, 100 hours of night flight time, and 75
hours of actual or simulated instrument time at least 50 hours of which were
in actual flight;
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