On Tuesday, December 22, 2015 at 11:48:17 AM UTC-8, PGS wrote:
On Monday, December 21, 2015 at 2:55:07 PM UTC-5, Greg Delp wrote:
On Monday, December 21, 2015 at 2:46:14 PM UTC-5, Chris Snyder wrote:
Power pilots need 10 hours of complex time to earn a commercial rating...could it be done in a motorglider?

Retractable landing gear: CHECK
Controllable pitch prop: CHECK
Flaps: CHECK

It's 10 hours required in an airplane not a glider. Uncheck

61.129(a) (3) (ii)

It would appear that a motor glider is indeed an airplane by the definitions.

Sec. 1.1 -- General definitions.

Airplane means an engine-driven fixed-wing aircraft heavier than air, that is supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against its wings.

Aircraft means a device that is used or intended to be used for flight in the air.

What nonsense. A motorglider is registered as type glider, not an airplane.