transferring schools

[BlazingRicker]

I am currently enrolled at flight safety. I have my pvt, multi licenses and am working on instrument. I am thinking about transferring to another 141 school and was wondering if transferring my time would be an issue. I have 160TT, 63 X/C. Also what are the hour requirements for instrument and commercial licenses? Someone told me that onle half of my cross-country time building would transfer, any truth to this? Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks

[montanapilot]

where are you thinking of transferring?

[jdflight]

There's no truth to that unless the xc time you're referring to wouldn't count under 141 for whatever reason. Your hours should transfer just fine. Sounds like something FSI would say to keep you. Rat b@$#@rds.

[woodreau]

I think if you go to another Part 141 school, then you are subject to that new school's Instrument/Commercial syllabus...

If you go to a Part 61 school, then you just need to fulfil the Part 61 requirements for your licenses.

All of your time will count for total time/cross country time when you go for an aviation job, but each Part 141 school has their own approved FAA syllabus... and the new school makes the determination of what to accept from your previous flight experience.

There is no minimum total time requirements for your instrument rating. Just training requirements... For your commercial uner Part 141, you have to have a certain amount of training time as defined by the flight school's commercial syllabus (Offhand I think it's about 120 hours of training) irregardless of how much total time you have. Under Part 61, you need a minimum of 250 total hours provided all of the commercial training requirements are met.

[SUSPilot]

I teach at a FAA part 141 flight school, and what you were told is correct, but they are only telling you part of the story. A part 141 school can transfer 50% of time from another part 141 school or 25% of time from a part 61 training program towards their syllabus. That being said, the times required for a rating depend on the training curriculum that was approved for the school, for instance, as per part 141, you only need 35 hours in a private pilot syllabus, but ours has 41(which is more than required under part 61). so yes only 50% of time from a program that was not completed can transfer to another syllabus, but it does not mean that you lose that flight time, and you may be a case to finish part 61 depending on how your time fell in line with the syllabus at the school you planned on transferring to.