Implications of.....keeping the speed up

Ed Mulroy wrote:
That is the section for a commercial certificate. The instrument rating
requirements are in 61.65. So where is the requirement for "hundreds of
flying hours" to obtain an instrument rating?


And if you check the cancel group you will see that I cancelled the message.
You managed to see it before tht cancel took.

There used to be a 250 hr (I think it was 250 but maybe 200) requirement for
an instrument rating. In later years the FAA has gotten more enlightened
and removed the hour requirement.

It used to be 200 hours or a commercial certificate. I believe it was
reduced to a 150 hours if the training was done at an approved school.

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From: Sam Spade ]
Posted At: Sunday, January 14, 2007 7:57 AM
Posted To: rec.aviation.ifr
Conversation: Implications of.....keeping the speed up
Subject: Implications of.....keeping the speed up

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It used to be 200 hours or a commercial certificate. I believe it was
reduced to a 150 hours if the training was done at an approved school.

It was reduced to 160 if you were in a Part 141 school. And that did not
have to be all VFR; you could get credit for your instrument training
time also.