Every pilot starts their journey to the top gaining their minimum flying qualification from:
- Private Pilot Licence (PPL) - A pilot may fly for pleasure or personal business. Private pilots cannot be paid, employed or hired by any operator.
- Commercial Pilot Licence (CPL) - A pilot can be paid, employed or hired by any operators.
- Air Transport Pilot Licence (ATPL) - ATPs as they are called typically are qualified to fly airliners.
Apart from obtaining all these mandatory licences, there are other common ratings & endorsements pilots take up in addition to the above:
- Night rating
- Instrument rating
- Instructor rating
- Multi engine endorsement
- Tail wheel endorsement
- Formation flying endorsement
- Float plane endorsement
- Aerobatics endorsement
- Low level endorsement
Some pilots start early in their life & there are many that holds a Pilot's Licence well before they even started driving a car. One may undertake the PPL flight training & test while still 16 however one cannot be issued with the licence until one is 17.
In order to hold a CPL, a PPL pilot may undertake the flight training & test at 17 however the licence cannot be issued until the pilot turns 18.
If a CPL pilot wish to fly as pilot in command of a multi crew aircraft (Airliners) one will need to obtain an ATPL.
To be issued with the actual licence, a pilot must have at least 1500 flying hours with specified time as pilot in command. The licence also sets minimum requirements for cross country, night flying & instrument time. A pilot also need to be 21 or older.
For an ATPL on aeroplanes, a pilot must hold or have held a Command Multi Engine Instrument Rating.
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