Commercial training

Training for the Commercial certificate is actually more fun that the Instrument rating. Flying IFR is a combination of mental and procedural discipline -- the whole system is set up so that if you follow certain lines, you don't hit anything and when you do contact earth, it is in a controlled manner.

The commercial maneuvers, though, are meant to train and then test the pilot's overall control of the airplane throughout its design envelope. Thus slow flight, stalls, lazy 8s, chandelles, steep spirals, and steep turns are part of the exercise.

This is strictly VFR work (in fact, you can be a VFR-only commercial pilot. You just can't make money at night or more than 50 nm from an airport!). I'll be using the A36 Bonanza for my practical test (what the FAA calls the flight test). I wouldn't mind using the V-tail, but it only has a single throwover yoke and so cannot be used for dual instruction or exams.