I took my commercial ride a couple months ago. I just got a call from my
CFI, that my 8710 got kicked out, because I didn't list "enough" solo time.
I put down 13 hours. I've got way more than that, but 61.129 a.4 said only
10 towards the commercial. 5 night VFR 10 t/o landings etc, & the long X/C.
The callback said they wanted to see 20 hours.
I went back, found 50 hours of solo (only guy in the plane) & they're
re-submitting it. When I questioned the change, the CFI said he was simply
told by the DE that "it's changed/changing". Nice to know, I guess.

PIC time is PIC time. Solo or not. I tend to put comments in my logbook.
Handy for remembering who (if anyone) I had in the plane. Not so handy when
everything in your logbook says, "Joe Schmoe ride" or "took girlfriend to
xyz" & you gotta *prove* so many hours of 'solo'. (also the wife shouldn't
see the "took girlfriend to xyz"....


I'd find at least 20 hours solo time.


"Bill Zaleski" wrote in message
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On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:31:40 GMT, Matt Whiting
wrote:


I'm filling out the 8710 for my upcoming commercial flight test and am
not sure what to put into three of the fields. I'll ask my CFI next
time we meet, but I thought I might get a quicker answer here.

For Solo, Cross Country Solo and Cross Country PIC, I'm not sure exactly
what they want. I haven't logged solo time since getting my private, so
my first thought was just log the solo and cross country solo logged
prior to my private and then all cross country since as PIC.

However, since the commercial (FAR 61.129) requires a 300 nm solo cross
country. I've made several of them, but they were all logged as PIC,
not solo. So, for the cross country solo, so I list my time prior to
the private and then pick a cross country of 300 nm that I flew alone
and add that time in? Or do I need to try to sort out all of the cross

country flights that I've logged as PIC cross country, but flew alone
and list them in the solo cross country category and then list those
where I had pax as PIC cross country? I haven't even indicated on many
of my flights if I had pax or not...


Matt


You only have to show enough hours in each field of the 8710 that is
required to qualify for the Commercial (see FAR 61.129). Don't worry
about showing anything more than that. It serves no purpose;