How do I get a commercial pilot license (certificate)? While FAA sets minimum certification requirements for air carriers (commercial certificate with instrument rating), each airline sets its own minimum experience requirements. For example, FAA requires 250 total hours for a commercial pilot certificate.
As such, to become eligible for an Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) certificate in the US a pilot must accumulate at least 1,500 total flight hours, including the specified flight hour categories: • A minimum of 500 hours of cross-country flight time • A minimum of 100 hours of night flight time To obtain a CPL, pilots must complete at least 150 flight hours. This can be a combination of the 110 minimum flight hours required in your CPL training while the 40 hours are the ones you've already earned as you worked your way through your private pilot license. The number of flying hours is manageable and ranges between 15 and 25 flying hours. The amount of time depends on whether you already hold an instrument rating or not. Important: In order to make your commercial pilot training as efficient as possible, you should start thinking about the later planned use of your CPL(A) at an early stage: 500 hours as Pilot in command under supervision (PICUS) or 250 hours as Pilot in Command (PIC) or 250 hours to include a minimum of 70 hours as PIC and the remainder as PICUS. 200 hours of cross-country flight time, of which at least 100 hours should be as PIC or as PIC under supervision
Commercial pilot license training is normally 25 hours of flight training. The 10-hour part of this training is the Basic IR training. However, if you have received IR - Instrument Rating Training before the CPL - Commercial Pilot License training, your CPL training is applied for 15 hours.
To qualify for your commercial pilot license, you must have logged 250 hours of flight time with 100 of those hours in powered aircraft and 50 in airplanes. Also, 100 hours must be pilot-in-command, 50 of which had to have been in an airplane. Hours as PIC of other categories of aircraft may count towards the 200 hours total flight time, in the following cases: 30 hours in helicopter, if the applicant holds a PPL(H); or; 100 hours in helicopters, if the applicant holds a CPL(H); or; 30 hours in TMGs or sailplanes; or; 30 hours in airships, if the applicant holds a PPL(As); or r3PtZSi.
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