Commercial Pilot Requirements Tracker (61.129)
Commercial Pilot Requirements Tracker (61.129) — log qualifying flights and watch each requirement line fill toward your checkride, privately in your browser.
Requirement: 61.129 requires 250 hours with 100 PIC, 50 XC PIC, a 300 nm long cross-country, 10 hours of instrument training and 10 in a complex or TAA.
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⚠️ Not for operational decisions. This is a record-keeping and planning aid only — not certified avionics, not a source of regulatory truth. Always verify against official sources (FAA) and your operator's approved documents before flying.
Free commercial pilot requirements tracker (61.129): log each training flight against the requirement bucket it fills and see your remaining gap to the checkride — the 250-hour table: PIC, XC PIC, the long XC, night and complex/TAA training.
About Commercial Pilot Requirements Tracker (61.129)
61.129 requires 250 hours with 100 PIC, 50 XC PIC, a 300 nm long cross-country, 10 hours of instrument training and 10 in a complex or TAA. Most training delays aren't flying problems — they're bookkeeping problems discovered late: a sub-requirement everyone assumed was complete turns out short when the examiner's paperwork is being assembled. This tracker prevents that by making every flight declare which bucket it fills (the 250-hour table: PIC, XC PIC, the long XC, night and complex/TAA training). The totals stay live, the 30-day tile shows your training tempo, and the CSV export gives your instructor the same picture you have. Students who arrive at checkride scheduling with this record complete schedule once; the alternative often reschedules twice.
How to use Commercial Pilot Requirements Tracker (61.129)
- 1Log each flight and tag which requirement bucket it fills.
- 2Review totals against the requirement before each lesson block.
- 3Export the record when scheduling your checkride paperwork.
Why use Commercial Pilot Requirements Tracker (61.129)?
- ✓Tracks the actual requirement: 61.129 requires 250 hours with 100 PIC, 50 XC PIC, a 300 nm long cross-country, 10 hours of instrument training and 10 in a complex or TAA
- ✓Bucket-tagged flights make every sub-requirement's progress visible
- ✓30-day tempo tile shows whether your training pace is decaying
- ✓CSV export aligns you and your CFI on what remains
- ✓Browser-private and free — your training file stays yours
Frequently asked questions
What trips up commercial applicants on the 61.129 table?+
Three lines, reliably: the 300 nm day-VFR long cross-country with a landing 250+ nm from departure, the 5 hours of NIGHT VFR with 10 towered night landings (often flown years earlier and mis-logged), and the 10 hours in a complex aircraft or TAA. Each line here tracks independently with hours remaining, so the expensive surprises surface months early while there's still time to combine them into planned time-building.
Why do students discover missing requirements so late?+
Because school records track lessons while the regulation tracks categories of experience, and the two drift: a night flight logged without the XC tag, hood time without the instructor's name, a 'cross-country' that doesn't meet the distance definition. Tagging each flight against the regulation's own buckets at logging time — not at checkride-prep time — collapses that drift to zero.
Does this replace my official logbook for the checkride?+
No — examiners verify your endorsed paper or certified electronic logbook. This is the planning layer that makes sure the official record will SURVIVE that verification: complete buckets, no surprises. Bring both: the logbook as evidence, this export as the index that lets you answer 'show me your night cross-country' in five seconds.
Do I need an account or internet connection?+
No account and no connection are needed once the page has loaded — all records are kept in local storage on your device and all calculations run in your browser. The trade-off is that data does not sync between devices, so export the CSV file when you want to move or archive your records.
How do I back up or print these records?+
Use the Export CSV button below the table: it downloads your full training progress record as a spreadsheet-ready file. From there you can print a clean copy, archive it with your training folder, or import it into any electronic logbook program. Exporting monthly is a good habit since the working data lives only in your browser.
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