except that the criteria states that it is a VFR cross country.. night and
day.. any work under the hood enroute or an approach at either end negates
the use of that cross country for the Commercial rating.

BT

"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote in message
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three-eight-hotel wrote:
If I flew a 2 hr. day XCtry and 2 hr. night XCtry, meeting the NM
requirements, with an instructor while working on the instrument
rating, would that carry-over? Is the requirement that a logbook entry
exist for those elements, or that they were done while training for the
commercial rating?


Any cross country you've done in the past for any reason is usable if it
meets the criteria. If you have a reasonably fresh instrument rating
you're pretty good to go. Learning the basics of the required maneuvers
in a complex single may be easier than in your C-172; you've got to burn
up 10 hours somehow anyway.

I'd say go for it. I did the same thing myself not so I could earn a
living so much as to get people to ride with me. People who are reluctant
to ride with a private pilot often don't show the same reticence with a
commercial one.



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Mortimer Schnerd, RN

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