"David Brooks" wrote in message ...
Does the phrase "10 hours of solo flight in a single-engine airplane on the
areas of operation listed in Sec. 61.127(b)(1)" make any sense, or is it a
cut-and-paste error lifted from the differently worded Private requirements?
Note the word "training" does not appear in the joined-up requirement. Do I
have to do go-arounds, performance maneuvers and ground reference maneuvers,
stalls, etc, during those solo night flights? No, I didn't think so.

It does sound awkward, but it makes sense.

61.129(a) requires you to log 250 hours. The key verb driving the
rest of the section is "log," and that will clear things up ...

61.129(a)(4) requires 10 of those 250 logged hours to be solo
single-engine working on the proficiency areas listed in 61.127(b)(1).
Just having 10 solo hours isn't useful, you have to spend them, and
log them, working on proficiency areas.

61.129(a)(4)(ii) requires 5 of those 10 hours to be in night VFR, etc.
Yes, they need to be on the proficiency areas. You don't have to do
ALL the proficiency areas on one flight, so, you don't have to do ALL
the proficiency areas at night (e.g. ground reference maneuvers), but
you have to do at least SOME of them (e.g. airport operations,
takeoffs, landings). And log them.