# Private Pilot Certificate — glider — 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(f)(2); requirement is total flight time; value is at least 3 hours of flight time in a glider; condition is If the applicant has logged at least 40 hours of flight time in a heavier-than-air aircraft, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Authority:** FAA (United States) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Provision:** 14 CFR 61.109(f)(2)
- **Requirement:** total flight time _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Value:** at least 3 hours of flight time in a glider _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Condition:** If the applicant has logged at least 40 hours of flight time in a heavier-than-air aircraft _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> If the applicant has logged at least 40 hours of flight time in a heavier-than-air aircraft , the applicant must log at least 3 hours of flight time in a glider 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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