Pilot Qualifications Flashcards
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? How do you know your copy is current?
Commercial ACS. The latest version is posted on FAA.gov. My copy matches.
For a commercial add-on checkride, show me in the ACS how you would determine which
tasks an examiner is required to include on the practical test?
Locate and explain the “Additional Rating Task Table.”
Is there an age requirement to be a commercial pilot? If so, what is it
18
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.
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.
Under what FAR Part would this operation fall?
Part 91.
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.
If you get hired, can you immediately start flying? What do you have to do legally
before you can start flying in this position?
Do you have to log these currency flights? Or is it enough that you’ve completed them?
No. 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.
Must be logged.
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.
Are you required to log any other type of flight time?
Could you accept the job if you did not have an instrument rating? What if the flights involved
carrying cargo only, no passengers?
Yes, flight time used to qualify for a checkride. No
Without an instrument rating I could only fly passengers during the day within 50nm. This job requires flying passenger(s) farther than 50nm and at night.
For cargo only: 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?
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 took the job as the CE-182 corporate pilot, what are some things you would want to keep an eye out for to ensure you weren’t part of an uncertficated, illegal common or private carriage operation?
Make sure that the owner/operation isn’t selling seats or cargo space. And just generally, the flights shouldn’t be generating revenue (on the contrary, the flights should be costing the owner or the business money). Passengers should be traveling for related purposes. The aircraft/operation shouldn’t be engaged in too many contracts, and not short-term contracts. And as stated before, no holding out.
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 of 119.1(e) exceptions
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.
You said that in order to carry passengers at night, 3 night landings are required. When exactly do these landings have to occur?
And that’s in order to carry passengers during what time frame?
Can the landings be
stop-and-go’s, or must they be full-stop-taxi-backs?
The period from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise.
Same time frame: one hour after sunset to an hour before sunrise.
Stop-and-go’s are not permitted.
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
How often must a pilot complete a flight review?
Every 24 calendar months.
Flight Review: 24 calendar months from what? I.e. what starts the 24 month clock?
Either the last flight review or the last checkride
Flight Review resetting the clock: Last pilot checkride, or do flight instructor checkrides start the clock, too?
Does an IPC count?
Do airline pilots have to do flight reviews as well?
Any checkride, CFI rides count, too.
No IPC doesn’t count
For airline pilots: Their routine 121 and 135 proficiency checks count instead.
