FAA Application -- kinds of time

"Nicholas Kliewer" wrote in message
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I am filling out my FAA Application for my instrument
checkride and had a couple of questions:

1) I am going for a private/single engine/instrument,
do I check all three blocks at the top? Or just the
instrument? Or just the SE and instrument?

On mine, I checked SE and instrument.

2) What is the difference between:
Solo & PIC
Cross Country Solo : Cross country PIC
Night takeoff/landing : Night takeoff/landing PIC

"Solo" is solo: no one else in the plane. "PIC" is time loggable as PIC
according to the regs (it includes all solo time, and some non-solo time).

The for night takeoff/landing. Is that supposed to
be time spent in the pattern at night? Does it include
night X-C time if I was the one to land the plane?

It includes all pilot time at night (as defined in the regs: between evening
civil twilight and morning civil twilight).

Does all of the time I have received dual at night
count for Night Instruction received even if I was
doing it under the hood and the instruction wasn't
necessarily "night" related? And for that matter,
does all the time that I had XC with my instructor
count as "Cross country instruction received?"

Yes and yes.

What I guess is that "solo" time means when you are
not receiving dual.

Nope, "solo" means no one else in the plane.

--Gary