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Using 10 hours in multi to satisfy commercial single requirement

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FAR 61.129 requires 10 hours of training in an airplane that has a retractable landing gear, flaps, and a controllable pitch propeller in order to apply for a single engine land commercial pilot certificate. Is there anything that prevents one from from satisfying this requirement using a multi-engine airplane? 

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  1. Mark Kolber on Jun 21, 2018

    The FAA has no trouble writing “in a single engine airplane” or “in a multiengine airplane” when it wants the time to be limited to one of those and just “in an airplane” when it doesn’t.

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  2. Matt B on Jun 25, 2018

    Yes that is legal. For example, I did my commercial multi-training first in a Piper Seminole and then went back to get my commercial single in a C-152.

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