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CPL Long Cross Country requirement question

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Hello: 

I am preparing to fly the Long Cross Country flight for the CPL License requirement, the 300nm flight. I`m holder of a Instrument Rating. Questions:

Can I as an Instrument Rated Pilot do that flight under IFR rules? (Filing an IFR Flight Plan)

Can I do that flight flying under the hood, taking a safety pilot with me?

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  1. John D. Collins on Dec 08, 2012

    In my reading of the regulation, the 300 NM cross country is one of the solo requirements and you may not use a safety pilot, unless the safety pilot is a flight instructor. So you can’t conduct the flight with a safety pilot who is not an instructor and have it count for the purposes of meeting the 300 NM cross country requirement. The original intention of the FAA was that solo flights were required, but they added the instructor exception to permit training where the pilot is not rated for the airplane or insurance would not authorized the flight thus making meeting the requirement not feasible.

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  2. Sam Dawson on Dec 08, 2012

    As pointed out you may not take a safety pilot with you. The flight may, however, be conducted IFR. There use to be a VFR cross country requirement but it was dropped several years ago.

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