Objective: To provide the pilot with experience with night operations and increase the pilot’s proficiency when operating in these conditions.

Text References:Commercial Pilot Flight Maneuvers and Practical Test Prep (FM); Pilot Handbook (PH); Pilot’s Operating Handbook (POH)

Content

1. Flight Lesson 27 complete? Yes Copy of lesson placed in pilot’s folder? Yes

2. Preflight briefing

3. Review items

Weather information - FM 77-91

Aeromedical factors - FM 111-116

Physiological aspects of night flying - CFI

Lighting and equipment for night flight - CFI

Traffic patterns - FM 153-159

Normal and crosswind takeoff and climb - FM 170-178; POH-4

Normal and crosswind approach and landing - FM 179-196; POH-4

Short-field takeoff and maximum performance climb - FM 208-214; POH-4

Short-field approach and landing - FM 215-221; POH-4

Power-off stalls - FM 289-294; PH 71-75

Power-on stalls - FM 295-300; PH 71-75

Additional items at CFI’s discretion

4. Postflight critique and preview of next lesson

Completion Standards

The lesson will have been successfully completed when the pilot completes the listed maneuvers assigned for this solo night flight. With this flight lesson being the last solo night flight, the pilot is required to have at least 5 hr. of solo flight time in nighttime conditions with 10 takeoffs and landings (each involving a flight with a traffic pattern) at an airport with an operating control tower.