6 Things to Remember about Acquiring Your Commercial Pilot License

Posted by Download On Kamis, 12 April 2012 0 komentar
By Ella B Spada


Things to bear in mind about attaining your commercial pilot certificate include Federal Aviation Regulations, ground schooling, flight time experience, test ride, medical certificate, and employer's requirements.

Being a commercial aviator allows you to fly to various places while also being paid for it. But, obtaining the license and getting the job is not not at all easy. It requires lots of dedication, training, completion of requirements, and passing all exams. Read this article to know more about how to become a commercial pilot.

Federal Aviation Regulations

The Federal Aviation Regulations or FAR holds the guidelines for the requirements for anyone planning to get a helicopter cpl or any commercial pilot license. The requirements are extensively enumerated in paragraph 121 through paragraph 123 of section 61 in the Federal Aviation Regulations. Upon signing up in a flight school, you will be updated with the complete and specific requirements to attaining a commercial pilot certificate.

Ground schooling

The Federal Aviation Regulations require candidates to undergo ground schooling where they will learn a broad range of information about aviation, in addition to certain details about specific aircrafts. The time a student spends studying must be logged for the Federal Aviation Administration or FAA. After a student accomplishes the mandatory education, he will be asked to get and pass the written examination.

Flight time experience

For a personal to attain a commercial pilot certificate, he should have at the very least 250 hours of flight time experience. Together with that, he must also have experience being the pilot-in-command, must have flown at night, have flown all around the country, have piloted solo, and experienced flying on instrument alone. While the candidate strives to complete all these flight experiences, he must also have experience operating the aircraft on which he aims to fly when he has his commercial pilot certificate. For example, if he aims to obtain a license for twin engine, then he must have had time piloting a twin-engine aircraft. The student should also have experience flying an aircraft that has retractable landing gear and flaps as part of his flight time experience.

Test ride

After finishing the education and the flight time experience prerequisites, the student will then be obliged to pass a check ride or flight test. In this test, all the knowledge and skills he has acquired and developed will be tested and checked. The student will demonstrate the right flying procedures, his flying skills, as well as emergency maneuvers. Once the student passes the flight exam, he will then be awarded the certificate to fly an aircraft.

Medical certificate

A personal holding a commercial pilot certificate is required by the Federal Aviation Regulations to maintain a Second Class Medical Certificate. This document, however, is valid only for twelve months. So the pilot must renew this medical certificate annually through an authorized health examiner.

Employer's prerequisites

After obtaining the commercial pilot certificate, it still does not imply that the individual can automatically be welcomed by any big airline company. While individual companies may have their own personal requirements for their applicants, they also require that applicants attain an Air Transport Pilot standing. The Air Transport Pilot or ATP requires applicants to finish 1,500 hours of flight time, more education, more tests, and more flight tests.

Pilot applicants to major airlines are also required to undergo additional instrument flying tests, wherein they will fly the aircraft while relying only on its instruments.




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