Commercial Mock Study Guide SEL Flashcards
Pass the Mock checkride
Show me in the FAR/AIM where the training requirements for commercial pilot certification
are listed.
The 61.120s. Specifically: 61.123 (eligibility), 61.125 (aeronautical knowledge),
- 127 (flight proficiency), and 61.129 (aeronautical experience, i.e. flight time
requirements) .
What document contains the testing standards for commercial pilot certification?
Commercial ACS. ¿How do you know your copy is current? The latest version is posted on
FAA.gov. My copy matches.
Let’s say that after you pass your commercial checkride, that you stop flying . . . the training
just becomes too expensive. 10 years pass before you see a job listing online for a pilot
position where, in exchange for a salary, you would be on call each week to fly the owner of
a CE-182 (230hp) to various destinations around the country, day and night. You would be
his employee, and most of the flying would be single-pilot IFR.
As a commercial pilot, are you eligible to apply for this position
Sure, this is Part 91 flying.
It’s a typical corporate pilot job. But I couldn’t start flying/acting as PIC until I’m current and
properly endorsed
¿Under what FAR Part would this operation fall?
Part 91.
¿If you get hired, can you immediately start flying? No.
¿What do you have to do legally
before you can start flying in this position?
Get current and properly endorsed: Accomplish
a flight review and an IPC. If carrying passengers, 3 takeoffs and landings; those landings
must be to a full stop if carrying passengers at night or in a tail wheel. I also need a current
2nd class medical (or 1st), as well as a high performance endorsement.
Do you have to log these currency flights? Or is it enough that you’ve completed them?
Must be logged.
¿Are you required to log any other type of flight time?
Yes, flight time used to qualify for a
checkride
Could you accept a job if you did not have an instrument rating?
Maybe. Why? Without
an instrument rating I could only fly passengers during the day within 50nm.
¿What if the flights involved
carrying cargo only, no passengers?
Then an instrument rating would not be necessary,
because the 50nm/night restriction only applies to passenger-carrying operations.
If you owned the CE-182, and provided you are current and proficient, could you post on
Facebook that you would be willing to fly your friends to certain destinations for $?
No,
that’s holding out and would make the operation common carriage.
¿What do you mean by holding out?
In this case, advertising. Specifically, holding out
means: extending a willingness to transport persons or property from place to place for
compensation. It’s the defining feature of common carriage.
¿What’s common carriage?
Flying for hire that involves holding out.
¿What’s private carriage for hire?
Flying for hire that does not involve holding out.
¿Why can airlines and charter operations do this but you can’t?
They have commercial
operator certificates, namely 121 or 135 certificates (akin to business licences)
If you were a commercial pilot and also a flight instructor, could you buy a plane and
advertise on Facebook that you are willing to provide flight instruction for a certain hourly
fee?
Yes, this is one of the 119.1(e) exceptions.
¿What do you mean 119.1(e) exceptions?
This regulation lists types of operations that
permit common carriage without an operator certificate.
¿What are some examples?
1) flight instruction,
2) non-stop air tours (conducted within a
25sm radius from the departure airport after first obtaining an LOA from the FAA and
complying with the rest of the myriad provisions surrounding air tours . . .),
3) ferry or
training flights,
4) aerial work operations including: crop dusting, seeding, spraying, bird
chasing, banner towing, aerial photography, and firefighting, and
5) nonstop parachute jump flight conducted within 25sm of the departure airport. (And there are a few more
extremely obscure examples listed under 119.1e)
When is a 125 certificate required?
It is a commercial operator certificate that is required
for large aircraft even when common carriage is not involved. Specifically, it is required
when the plane’s max payload exceeds 6000lbs or has a passenger seating capacity of 20
or more.
When is a high performance endorsement required?
When one of the engines is rated at
more than 200hp.
¿How do you know that a type rating is not required for the CE-182?
The CE-182 doesn’t
have a max t/o weight of more than 12,500lbs, is not a turboJET, and the Administrator
doesn’t require it.
Let’s say you have your commercial multi-engine and single-engine ratings. Are you
passenger-current in the CE-182 if you have done 3 landings in the previous 90 days in a
PA-44?
No, passenger currency is class-specific. I’d only be current in multi-engine land
airplanes, in that case
Who is permitted to conduct a flight review?
A CFI or other person designated by the
administrator. The CFI must have his/her instructor rating in the class of airplane in which
the flight review is being conducted.
Can you still log PIC time if you’ve exceeded the 24 month window without a flight
review/checkride?
Yes, if I’m the sole manipulator of the controls and rated in that class of airplane; however, I cannot act as PIC because I’m not current, so there must be another pilot onboard who is appropriately rated/endorsed/current acting as PIC.
What does a flight review consist of, at a minimum?
At a minimum, 1 hour of ground and 1
hour of flight training. The ground must (at least) cover the current general operating and
flight rules of part 91. The flight must include a review of the maneuvers and procedures
that, at the discretion of the person giving the review, are necessary for the pilot to
demonstrate safe exercise of the pilot certificate.
You are a private pilot with single-engine land and multi-engine land ratings. If you
complete a flight review in the SE, are you also current in the ME?
Yes, once I do a flight
review in any aircraft that I’m rated to fly, I am now current (flight-review wise) in all the
other aircraft in which I’m rated.
When can you log PIC time?
Generally, when the pilot is 1) rated in the aircraft, and 2) sole manipulator of the controls. Additionally, solo students, flight instructors providing instruction, and safety pilots acting as PIC while the other pilot is wearing a view limiting device can also log PIC.
