FAA PPL night flight requirement - does it have to be DUAL?

"Peter" wrote in message
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Reading FAR/AIM 2004 it isn't entirely clear to me because different
sections refer to day and night cross country, and I don't think the
description of a day cross country applies to the night flight; the
distances are 150nm and 100nm respectively.

I have night flights with an instructor which exceed 100 miles in
total distance, and I have a solo night flight which exceeds 100nm
which was done between two airports whose direct line spacing is
119nm.

I suspect that the information on the basis of which I did the last
flight was bogus and I don't meet the FAA PPL requirement.

Can anyone suggest the FAR/AIM 2004 sections which could clarify this?

Look at 61.109 (Private Pilots, Aeronautical Experience). According to
61.109a2, you need "3 hours of night flight training in a single-engine
airplane that includes--(i) one cross-country flight of over 100 nautical
miles total distance". "Training" refers to dual flights, so your night solo
doesn't count. But any dual cross-country flight of 100nm total distance
does count. There is no straigh-line distance requirement.

--Gary





Peter.
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