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A commercial applicant must fly a 2-hour daytime cross-country with a straight-line distance greater than what?
100 nautical miles from the original departure point.
- 50 nautical miles
- 300 nautical miles
- 100 nautical miles ✔
Why: The training must include one 2-hour daytime cross-country in a single-engine airplane. The total straight-line distance must be more than 100 nautical miles from where the flight started.
Huh, didn't know that: Helicopter applicants fly the same two 2-hour trips, but the distance need only be more than 50 nautical miles.
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Answer: 100 nautical miles. The training must include one 2-hour daytime cross-country in a single-engine airplane. The total straight-line distance must be more than 100 nautical miles from where the flight started.
- 14 CFR 61.129 Aeronautical experience (Cornell LII eCFR mirror) www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/61.129
total straight-line distance of more than 100 nautical miles from the original point of departure
Checked 2026-10-10.
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