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Become a Pilot

Pilot Training Resources offers flight training programs for the following certificates and ratings:

Private Pilot

The majority of active pilots hold the Private Pilot Certificate.This will allow you the ability to fly various and different aircraft.

 

Requirements

- Be at least 16 years of age to become a student pilot and fly solo

- Be at least 17 to test for a private pilot certificate

- Be able to read, speak, and understand the English language

- Obtain at least a current third-class medical certificate

- Receive a minimum of 40 hours of flight time including training and          solo flight

- Pass a knowledge test as well as the practical test

Commercial Pilot

If you want to be paid to fly in any capacity, a commercial pilot certificate is required. Training for the certificate takes a pilot back to the basics of airman ship, and away from the rigors of instrument training.

A pilot must obtain ratings for each category and class of airplane she wishes to be paid to operate. For example, if a pilot aspires to fly skydivers in a Cessna 182 and cargo in a King Air C90, she must have commercial certificate with a single engine and a multi engine rating.

Requirements

To obtain a commercial certificate in an airplane under FAR Part 61 rules a pilot must have:

  • 250 hours of flight time, 100 hours of which must be in powered aircraft, and 50 must be in airplanes.

  • 100 hours of pilot-in-command time, 50 of which must be in airplanes.

  • 50 hours of cross-country time, 10 of which must be in an airplane.

  • 20 hours of training, including 10 of instrument, 10 of complex or TAA, and a smattering of cross-country and practical test preparation.

  • 10 hours of solo training, including your  cross-country and night.

Additional class ratings, such as adding a multi-engine rating to single-engine commercial pilot certificate or adding a single-engine rating to a multi-engine commercial pilot certificate, will take additional training in that class. FAR 61.129 has all the specifics. 

- Pass a knowledge test as well as the practical test

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