(Ben Jackson) wrote in message news:4sZec.130808$K91.344330@attbi_s02...
In article ,
David B. Cole wrote:
But does it make sense to do the multi before the Comm

A multi is a complex airplane, so it can count for some of the training
you'll need for the (single engine) commercial.

better yet, you can do the initial commercial in a multi- and the
commercial single as an add-on; that's what I did actually for a number
of complicated reasons (one of them being that it didn't require any
solo night time)... but essentially I do have access to a couple
of nice twins that can be flown solo, rare, but still exists; and since
I was going for a multi- rating anyway, I thought that there wasn't that
much difference in requirements between adding it to my private certificate
versus going for the commercial rating directly; the fun side effect to
doing the single commercial as an add-on was that I was able to do it in
a non complex aircraft (how many people do you know who did their
commercial recently in a tailwheel? :-)

--Sylvain