Commercial Pilot License

1. Age

He shall be not less than Eighteen years of age on the date of application:

2. Educational Qualification

He shall have passed Class Ten plus Two or an equivalent examination with Physics and Mathematics, from a recognised Board/University.

3. Medical Fitness

He shall produce on a prescribed proforma a certificate of physical fitness from an approved Medical Board after undergoing a medical examination during which he shall have established his medical fitness on the basis of compliance with the requirements as notified by the Director-General under Rule 39B.

4. Knowledge

He shall pass a written examination in Air Regulations, Air Navigation Meteorology and aircraft and Engines and Signals (practical) examination for interpretation of aural and visual signals, as per the syllabus prescribed by the Director-General.

5. Experience

He shall produce evidence of having satisfactorily completed as a pilot of an airplane on the date of application for license not less than two hundred hours of flight time, which shall include—

(i) Not less than one hundred hours of flight time as Pilot-in-Command of which not less than fifteen hours shall have been completed within a period of six months immediately preceding the date of application for license;

(ii) Not less than twenty hours of cross-country flight time as Pilot-in-Command including a cross- country flight of not less than three hundred nautical miles in the course of which full stop landings at two different aerodromes shall be made;

(iii) Not less than ten hours of instrument time of which not more than five hours may be on an approved simulator; and

(iv) Not less than five hours of flight time by night including a minimum of ten take-offs and ten landings as Pilot-in-Command (as sole manipulator of controls) carried out within six months immediately preceding the date of application for license..

6. Other Requirements

He shall be in possession of a current Flight Radio Telephone Operator’s License for operation of radio telephone apparatus on board an aircraft issued by the Director-General.

7. Skill

He shall have demonstrated his competency to perform the procedures and maneuvers prescribed in the syllabus to the satisfaction of an examiner, on the type of airplane to which the application for license relates, within a period of six months immediately preceding the date of application. The Director General may, however, allow Skill Test or part thereof to be carried out on aircraft/ approved Zero Flight Time Training simulator level ‘D’ for the type of aircraft. The

(i) General flying test by day;

(ii) General flying test by night;

(iii) A cross-country flight test by day consisting of a flight of not less than two hundred fifty nautical miles in the course of which at least one full stop landing at an aerodrome other than the aerodrome of departure shall be made; and

(iv) A cross-country flying test by night consisting of a flight of not less than one hundred twenty nautical miles returning to the place of departure without landing elsewhere.