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Love to fly and want to get paid to do it?

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, or pursue a career as a flight instructor, charter pilot, airline pilot and much much more. The sky is the limit!

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What Are The Prerequisites?

1. Commercial pilot candidates must be at least 18 years old, able to read, speak, write, and understand English, and hold at least a private pilot certificate.

2. Under 14 CFR Part 61, a pilot needs at least 250 flight hours. That includes 100 hours of pilot-in-command time and 50 hours of cross-country. Cross-country flights are also part of the training; including one of three legs that is at least 300 nautical miles total with a single leg of at least 250 miles. Additionally, at least 10 hours of instrument training and 10 hours in a complex or technologically advanced (TAA) aircraft are required. All of these hourly requirements ensure that a new commercial pilot will be a proficient and experienced pilot.

3. While it is not required to have an Instrument rating in order to be a Commercial Pilot, it is highly recommended. An Instrument rating acts a practical transition from Private to Commercial. Without an Instrument rating, a Commercial pilot, if flying for hire, will not be allowed to fly at night or venture further than 50 nautical miles from the home base airport. Most pilots do not want to incur these limitations. So typically they’ll get an instrument rating on the way to their Commercial status.

4. During commercial flight training, students learn new maneuvers and refine familiar ones.