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Commercial SEL add-on

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I have the Commercial MEL rating and would like to add-on the SEL.  The PTS seems a bit confusing on which items I need to complete for the add-on.  I know I'll need to do steep spirals, chandells, lazy 8s, and pylon 8s, but is there anything else?  Various landings and take-offs, stalls, steep turns, approaches, etc. were completed for the C-MEL so I suspect I won't have to repeat those for the add-on.

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  1. Kris Kortokrax on Oct 05, 2016

    See page 21 of the current version of the Commercial PTS. It contains the task table for the addition of an ASEL rating to an existing Commercial certificate.

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