Commercial Pilot Training
Commercial Pilot Certificate
So you want to get paid to fly?
Achieving Commercial Pilot certification is the ticket to finally being able to receive compensation as a pilot. This certificate opens the doors to a wide variety of personally and financially rewarding flying opportunities. Commercial pilots are able to fly passengers for hire, transport cargo, charter pilot and much much more. The sky is the limit!
This is the step before you can pursue a flight instructor certificate (CFI) or an Air Transport Pilot (ATP) once you gain more hours.
What are the prerequisites?
- Hold at least a current private pilot certificate or be concurrently applying for a private pilot certificate with an airplane.
- Be able to read, speak, write, and understand the English language.
- Hold a current Medical Certificate.
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 a smattering of cross-country and night.
Additional class ratings, such as adding a multiengine rating to single-engine commercial pilot certificate or adding a single-engine rating to a multiengine commercial pilot certificate, will take additional training in that class.
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