On Tuesday, December 22, 2015 at 3:00:04 PM UTC-5, Darryl Ramm wrote:
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.

Yes, the FARs are full of "nonsense", what's your point? 61.129 does not say "type", it says airplane. The definition of airplane, according to the FARs is as mentioned above.