Commercial Pilot Qualifications

Question 1

What are the eligibility requirements for the commercial pilot airplane certificate?

Answer 1

Far 61.123
- must be 18
- English proficient
- logbook endorsement for : knowledge test
- pass knowledge test
- logbook endorsement for practical test
- meet minimum aeronautical experience
- pass practical test
- private pilot certificate

Far 141
- hold instrument rating
-35 hours of knowledge training
-120 hours of flight training

Question 2

What privileges apply to a commercial pilot?

Answer 2

Far 61.133

May act as PIC of an aircraft
-carrying persons or property for compensation or hire
-for compensation or hire
(As long as you comply with applicable parts that apply to the operation being conducted)
-limitation is without a instrument rating you are prohibited to fly, for compensation or hire, a cross country flight more than 50 NM or at night

Question 3

What does the term ‘Commercial Operator’ refer to?

Answer 3

14 CFR part 1
“ A commercial operator is a person who, for compensation or hire, engages in the carriage by aircraft in the air commerce of persons or property, other than as an air carrier or foreign carrier under the authority of 14 CFR part 375. Where it is doubtful that an operation is for “compensation or hire” the test applied is whether the carriage by air is merely incidental to the persons other business or is, in itself, a major enterprise for profit.