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Pilot Qualifications Flashcards

1
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What are required to have readily available and accessible if acting as PIC?

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61.3
1. Medical (Class 2 for commercial)
2. Government issued photo ID (must not be expired)
3. Pilot Certificate

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Where is it displayed that a pilot is appropriately rated?

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61.5
- Pilot certificates are issued with the respective certification that has been completed (certificates don’t expire)

  • Category, Class & Type ratings are placed on a pilot certificate (other than student pilot) when applicant satisfactory accomplishes the training and certification
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What does the term category refer to?

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  • They’re ratings that require additional training prior to operating that type of aircraft
  • They’re applied in respect certification of airmen and in respect to aircraft intended use

Category
For Airmen: Rotorcraft, glider, airplane, lighter than air
For Aircraft Cert: Based upon intended use
- Transport
- Normal
- Utility
- Acrobatic
- Limited
- Restricted
- Provisional

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When speaking of class, what does that refer to?

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For Airplanes:
Single Engine
Multi Engine
Multi-Engine Sea
Single Engine Sea

For Rotorcraft:
Helicopter
Gyroplane

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When is a type rating required?

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61.31
1. Large aircraft 12,500lbs (except lighter-than-air)
2. Turbojet-powered airplanes
3. Other aircraft specified by the administrator though aircraft type certificate

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If you’re type rated in an aircraft that requires a SIC, what would you have to do prior to flying SIC in that aircraft?

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61.55(a-b)
- Within the previous 12 months become familiar with:
- Operational procedures
- Performance specification and limitations
- Emergency procedures etc. (refer to 61.55(b)

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What are your privileges and limitations as a certificated commercial pilot?

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61.133 Privileges

A commercial pilot certificate allows me to act as PIC of an aircraft

  • Carry persons or property for compensation/hire_ provided the person is qualified IAW the applicable parts of this chapter that apply to that operation (121, 135, 125 etc.)
  • For compensation or hire, provided the person is qualified IAW the applicable parts of this chapter that apply to that operation (121, 135, 125 etc.)
  • Commercial pilots with lighter-than-air category ratings may give ground and flight training in an airship or balloon
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What is the difference between proficiency and currency?

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Currency: Is meeting the legal requirements to operate an airplane

Proficiency: Is having recent experience to operate an aircraft safely

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What’s required to fly under BasicMed?

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AC 68-1
1. Hold a US driver’s license

  1. Hold or have held, a medical issued by the FAA at any point after July 15, 2006
  2. Answer the health question on the CMEC
  3. Get your physical exam by ANY state licensed physician, and have that physician complete the CMEC (48 months)
  4. Take the online medical education course within the preceding (24 mos). Keep the course completion document
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What are the limitations with BasicMed?

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AC 68-1
1. Fly an airplane with no mor than 6 occupants

  1. Fly an aircraft under 6,000 lbs MTOW
  2. Fly with no more than 5 pax
  3. Flights within the US, under 250 kts under 18,001’ MSL
  4. Not fly for hire/compensation
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What do I need to maintain BasicMed?

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AC 68-1
1. Have CMEC completed by physician in the last 48 months
2. Being treated by a physician for medical conditions that can affect the safety of flight
3. Have a medical course completion completed with the last 24 calendar months

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What is required recency of flight experience?

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61.57
- Flight experience needed in order for me to operate an aircraft that I’m properly rated for.

The recency of flight experience include:
(a) General Experience
1. Carrying passengers, I would need to make 3 T/O and landings within the preceding 90 days

  1. Person/property may not be carried on board the aircraft, other than those necessary for the flight
  2. May be accomplished in a flight simulator

(b) Night Takeoff/Landings experience
1. Carrying pax at night from the period of 1hr after sunset to 1hr before sunrise
- within the last 90 days
- made 3 T/O and landings to a full stop

(c) Instrument Experience
1. 66HIT
- 6 IAP
- Holding procedures and tasks
- Intercepting and tracking courses through the use of electrical navigation systems

(d) Instrument Proficiency Check
- If “C” isn’t met in the time frame, IPC can be done by:
- Examiner
- Company check pilot
- CFI-I
- Person approved by the administrator

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Do I need to log all my hours of commercial flying? What am I required to log?

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61.51(b)
- Technically speaking “no” but I’m going to need it for future ratings and requirements so I will log it

Required to log
1. Training and aeronautical experience used to meet the requirements for a certificate, rating, or flight review

  1. Aeronautical experience required for meeting recent flight experience
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What medical am I required to hold as a commercial pilot?

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61.23
Class 2: Good for 12 months regardless of age.

  • e.g Class 1 after 6 months over the age of 40 would have 6 months of class 2 privileges for commercial
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Where can I find the exceptions for recency of flight experience?

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61.57(e)

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Since you’re going all the way to ATP certificate, what is required of you for 121 ATP privileges or where can I find that information?

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61.159

Hours Requirements

  1. 1,500 hrs Total Time (not more than 100 hrs in a simulator)
  2. 500 of XC (more than 50 nm)
  3. 100 of night flight time
  4. 50 hrs of multi-engine
  5. 75 hrs of instrument flight time
  6. 250 hrs PIC or SIC PDPIC. This must include:
    • 100 hrs XC time as PIC / SIC PDPIC
    • 25 hrs of night PIC / SIC PDPIC
17
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How do I know I am eligible to take a commercial pilot checkride today?

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141 Appendix D Commercial Pilot Cert. Course
- 35 hours in airplane CAT
- 120 hrs of training in airplane powered lift-rating
- 55 ASEL from CFI involves:
-10 hrs of instrument
- 10 hrs of complex
- 2 hrs day xc over 100 NM
- 2 hrs night xc over 100 NM
- 3 hrs in ASEL within 60 days preceding test
- 10 hrs solo or PDPIC in ASEL
- 5 hrs of night in VFR condition with 10 t/o and 10 landings at towered airport
- XC with landings at 3 points and one segment of the flight consisting of a straight-line distance of at least 250 NM

18
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What is common carriage?

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AC 120-12a
- The carriage of passengers/cargo for compensation or hire involving “holding out”

4 Elements of Common Carrier
1. Holding Out

  1. Transporting pax/property
  2. From place to place
  3. For compensation/hire
19
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Define “holding out”, and give examples not like “advertising”.

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AC 120-12a
- Holding out simply means advertising your services to the public

Other Examples
- Salesman finding people from the public and bringing them to you for transport

  • Gaining a reputation of serving all regardless if generates little success. The issue is the nature and character of the operation
  • Willing to carry certain kinds of traffic is still considered holding out and is common carriage
20
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What’s private carriage?

A

AC 120-12a
- Carrying pax/cargo for hire
- Not involving “holding out”
- For one or several selected customers, generally on a long term basis

21
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What section would I find Rest Requirements for commercial pilots?

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117.25

22
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What should I do if I lose my pilot certificate. How can I continue to operate my commercial privileges?

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  • File an application for the replacement of a lost/destroyed airman certificate to the DOT, FAA
  • Request a document from FAA admin allowing temporary authority to exercise privileges. Good for 60 days while a duplicate certificate is sent to you
23
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What would I need to act as PIC of a pressurized aircraft?

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61.31
- For a/c with service ceiling or max operating altitude (whichever is lower) above 25,000 MSL

  • Received ground and flight training and an endorsement that you’ve been certified to operate
  • Ground training must include
    • High altitude aerodynamics
    • Meteorology
    • Respiration
    • Hypoxia etc.
24
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When would you need a type rating?

A

61.31
1. When aircraft gross weight over 12,500lbs
2. Turbojet-powered airplane
3. Other a/c specified by the admin through a/c type certification procedures

25
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Can a commercial pilot carry passengers in a restricted, limited, or experimental category?

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  • No person may carry passengers or cargo for hire in any of these categories
26
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What are the eligibility requirements for a commercial pilot certificate?

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61.123
- 18 yrs old
- Able to speak write and understand english
- Receive a logbook endorsement from an authorized instructor
- Pass Knowledge test

27
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If you just received your medical last week, now you’ve been diagnosed with a condition that would normally disqualify you for your medical. Is your medical still valid?

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61.53
- No. 61.53 says that no person knowingly, or has reason to know of any medical condition that would disqualify them to _act as PIC or, in any other capacity, as a required pilot flight crewmember

  • Doing so, and/or not mentioning it in your next AME exam would be also be in violation of 61.59. Falsification of Application.
  • This could be cause for suspension or revocation

Commercial Checkride ACS (10 decks)

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