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Do the part 141 Commercial solo cross countries have to be conducted under VFR?

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I keep getting conflicting answers from different CFIs that I've asked. But I don't see a VFR requirement here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/appendix-D_to_part_141

 

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  1. John Scarry on Dec 31, 2017

    In the same section they specifically require night VFR conditions for the takeoffs and landings. If they required VFR for the cross-country, they would have said so.

    §61.129 Aeronautical experience.
    (4) (ii) 5 hours in night VFR conditions with 10 takeoffs and 10 landings (with each landing involving a flight in the traffic pattern) at an airport with an operating control tower.

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  2. cmpt7 on Dec 31, 2017

    Do you know if there was a change in the rules then? Because the CFIs who told me it had to be VFR were speaking from their experience from their commercial training

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  3. Timothy Broadwater on Dec 31, 2017

    What does the TCO at your school say? That is the determining document.

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    Russ Roslewski on Jan 01, 2018

    For Part 61, it did indeed require VFR, up until a few years ago. I forget how many, certainly within the last 10 years. Since the Part 141 requirement is otherwise worded identically, I suspect it changed at the same time.

    They simply removed the VFR requirement and everybody back then was confused. So yes, for people who got their Commercial certificate before the change, they would remember it being a VFR requirement. However, that doesn’t excuse them as CFIs from staying up to date.

    However however, Part 141 lays down what is essentially the minimum requirements. The school will have an approved syllabus that they have to use. If that syllabus has not been updated since the change, then it very well may still say “VFR” – it which case it IS a requirement, but only at that school.

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