Mt. San Antonio College

The minimum required hours for this license is 250 hours total time, with 50 of those hours acceptable in a flight simulator. This flight experience can be obtained by the end of the student's second year of study at Mt SAC under ideal conditions. Assuming the instrument rating is received at the 200 hour mark, the commercial pilot license could then be obtained for an additional $7000. This is based on most flight experience being built in the Cessna 152, with the final 20 hours of training in a complex airplane (the flight test must be conducted in an airplane with retractable landing gear such as the Piper Arrow). only 10 hours must be in the complex airplane, but 20 hours is probably more typical. Required maneuvers are a simple extension of private pilot flight skills, with many of the private pilot requirements being repeated to higher levels of precision. Many of our students complete training for this certificate after transfer to their chosen four-year university. Students attending our college part-time require more than two years to complete our program, so the commercial pilot certificate is more common before Mt SAC graduation in these instances. A Class II medical certificate is required for the commercial operations (valid for one year).