On Monday 31 October, Bertrand Piccard performed night take-offs and landings. After a total of 16 flights, the training of Bertrand ended successfully.

The training program, supervised by the Solar Impulse flight mission specialists had various objectives which have all been achieved. These included: mid altitude flights (4'000 m), circuit patterns, equipment and oxygen system testing, go arounds, motor failure tests and night take-off and landing.

Training will restart again in the Spring of 2012 with long-duration flights (10-18h).