Minimum Requirements for PPL

  1. 40 hours of flight time
  2. 20 hours of flight training
  3. 10 hours of solo flight
  4. 5 hours of solo cross country
  5. Solo cross country flight of 150 nautical miles total distance, with full-stop landings at three points, and one segment of the flight consisting of a straight-line distance of more than 50 nautical miles between takeoff and landing locations
  6. 3 takeoffs and 3 full stop landings solo at a towered airport
  7. 3 hours of cross-country flight training in a single-engine airplane
  8. 3 hours of night flight training in a single-engine airplane
  9. Night cross-country training flight of over 100 nautical miles total distance
  10. 10 takeoffs and 10 full stop landings at an airport at night
  11. 3 hours of flight training in a single engine airplane solely by reference to instruments
  12. 3 hours of flight training in a single-engine airplane within the preceding 2 calendar months

FAR Part ยง61.109(a)