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Commercial Pilot, FAA Regulations, Helicopter, Instrument Rating, Private Pilot

Greetings,

I am the proud owner of a private pilot helicopter rating and am beginning to work on my commercial and instrument ratings. I am very interested in obtaining my fixed wing ratings and have discovered that there is considerable overlap in the training requirements. Is there a template or spreadsheet available that I can use to track my progress and reduce the risk of duplicating a flight that can used to cover multiple requirements? Ultimately I am attempting use my money wisely and make the most of my limited time.

 

Thank you for your time. Any help will be greatly appreciated.......kp

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  1. jay2712 on Feb 27, 2018

    You are correct, with proper planning you may complete requirements for multiple ratings, typically in the area of cross country, towered field landings, etc. You also save by not having to take a second knowledge test 61.63 c(3).

    A careful review of part 61 is the place to start. For each rating you plan to seek in the future, look at the section for that rating on Aeronautical Experience. Read carefully as some requirements will state “in an airplane” while other requirements will not specify, these are the ones where you can tailor the training to cover several requirements. For example, the commercial airplane requirements 61.129 require 50 hours cross country but only 10 in airplanes, five of the 10 hours instrument must be in airplanes, whereas the helicopter requires only five, so plan on only doing five in each, you should have the helo ones done through the private and instrument requirements. The 300 nm cross country flight does not specify airplane, but the helicopter commercial requirement is 50 nm so you would have to look at the rental cost difference to see if it’s worth it to do that 300 nm in a rotorcraft.
    The night requirement at towered field will be met by completion of the rotorcraft commercial.

    Not sure on any spreadsheet, I don’t know of one. You could easily go through the requirements for each rating and make one.

    Hope this helps.

    JB

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  2. kpcep on Feb 28, 2018

    Jay2712,

    Thank you. I have reviewed the FAR AIM a number of times and appreciate your comments and thoughts. I had completely overlooked the knowledge exam piece, THANK YOU. I am beginning to build a spreadsheet that I hope to refine during the course of this journey. Hopefully it will help someone else in the future. Also, for what its worth, I learned that Foreflight has a progress report built into their software that allows you to track Fixed wing PPL and instrument progress. I’ve submitted a request to include other ratings and they indicated that they would consider it.

    Again, thank you for your time and contribution to my journey……kp

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