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Commercial Rating
Our team is excited to help you become a truly professional pilot.
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Earning money while flying is one of the greatest feelings in the world. A Commercial Pilot Rating allows you to do just that.
As you progress through the Commercial Pilot Rating, Ridgeline Aviation will help you become a professional pilot with full awareness of the responsibilities commercial jobs require from their pilots.
Commercial Pilot Curriculum
What You Need for Your FAR Part 61 Commercial
To earn your commercial rating, you must have 250 hours of training at a minimum. Those hours must consist of at least:
- 100 hours of pilot-in-command flight time, which includes at least
- 50 hours in cross-country flight
Dual: 20 hours minimum of flight training with an instructor on the Commercial Pilot areas of operation including:
- 10 hours of training in a complex airplane, a turbine-powered airplane, or a technically advanced airplane (TAA)
- One 2-hour cross-country flight in a single-engine airplane in daytime conditions that consists of a total straight-line distance of more than 100 nautical miles from the original point of departure
- One 2-hour cross-country flight in a single-engine airplane in nighttime conditions that consists of a total straight-line distance of more than 100 nautical miles from the original point of departure
- Three hours in a single-engine airplane with an authorized instructor in preparation for the practical test within the preceding 2 calendar months from the month of the test
Solo: 10 hours minimum of solo or 10 hours of flight time performing the duties of pilot in command in a single engine airplane with an authorized instructor on board on the Private Pilot areas of operation including:
- One cross-country flight of not less than 300 nautical miles total distance, with landings at a minimum of three points, one of which is a straight-line distance of at least 250 nautical miles from the original departure point.
- Hawaiian Pilots need only have a straight-line distance of at least 150 nautical miles
- 5 hours in night VFR conditions with 10 takeoffs and 10 landings (with each landing involving a flight in the traffic pattern) at an airport with an operating control tower