# Private Pilot Certificate — airplane multiengine — Pilot licence minimum hours, age and prerequisites by civil aviation authority

For Private Pilot Certificate, authority is FAA (United States); provision is 14 CFR 61.109(b); requirement is dual instruction; value is at least 20 hours of flight training from an authorized instructor, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Authority:** FAA (United States) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Provision:** 14 CFR 61.109(b)
- **Requirement:** dual instruction _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Value:** at least 20 hours of flight training from an authorized instructor _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> must log at least 40 hours of flight time that includes at least 20 hours of flight training from an authorized instructor and 10 hours of solo flight training in the areas of operation listed in

## Source

- https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/61.109

Last verified: 2026-08-10. Review by: 2027-08-10.
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