It's amazing how many times I've run across check rides where they have like 50.5 hours of cross-country time and I asked the question.

So did you count the time that you did in your private with your instructor towards that?

And I say, well, yeah, well, but you weren't PIC on the initial cross-countrys you did that were dual until you did them solo and we'll end up

two or three hours short of that 50 PIC. So that's something just to kind of watch out for. It's a

really quick gotcha and just make sure you got that 50 that's actually PIC cross-country time

towards an instrument rating. That's pilot examiner Jason Blair talking.

In a moment, he'll be giving me a mock instrument check ride,

which would help both pilots who are working on their instrument rating,

as well as pilots who already have a rating and would like to do some review.

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