The Commercial Pilot certificate is your first step to earning your living as a professional pilot. It allows you to fly for compensation for hire. Together with an instrument rating it opens doors to a flying career.

Your commercial flight training will teach you how to operate a sophisticated, complex aircraft, with retractable landing gear, a variable pitch propeller and more power than the average trainer. You will learn to fly to closer tolerances and venture further afield on cross country flights. And even if you get the Commercial certificate only to improve your personal flying, it is nice to know that you can always use it as the foundation for a new career.

Requirements:

18 years of age

Read, speak, write and understand English

Hold a private pilot certificate

Hold at least a valid third class medical

Hold an instrument rating (or the commercial pilot certificate will be limited to day and the transport of passengers less than 50 miles)

Receive the necessary flight training

Pass an oral exam and flight test

Pass a knowledge test