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Requirements for the issue
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Commercial Pilot’s Licence (Aeroplanes)
1. Requirements for issue of Licence— An applicant for a
Commercial Pilot’s Licence shall satisfy the following requirements
:—
(a) Age— He shall be not less than Eighteen years of age
on the date of application:
(b) Educational Qualification— He shall have passed Class
Ten plus Two or an equivalent examination with Physics and Mathematics,
from a recognised Board/University.
(c) Medical Fitness— He shall produce on a prescribed proforma
a certificate of physical fitness from an approved Medical Board
after undergoing a medical examination during which he shall have
established his medical fitness on the basis of compliance with
the requirements as notified by the Director-General under Rule
39B.
(d) Knowledge— He shall pass a written examination in Air
Regulations, Air Navigation Meteorology and aircraft and Engines
and Signals (practical) examination for interpretation of aural
and visual signals, as per the syllabus prescribed by the Director-General
:
Provided that the holder of a current Commercial Pilot’s
Licence (Helicopters) shall be required to pass an examination
in Aircraft and Engines only.
(e) Experience— He shall produce evidence of having satisfactorily
completed as a pilot of an aeroplane within a period of five years
immediately preceding the date of application for licence not
less than two hundred hours of flight time, which shall
include—
(i) not less than one hundred hours of flight time as Pilot-in-Command
of which not less than fifteen hours shall have been completed
within a period of six months immediately preceding the date of
application for licence;
(ii) not less than twenty hours of cross-country flight
time as Pilot-in-Command including a cross-country flight of not
less than three hundred nautical miles in the course of which
full stop landings at two different aerodromes shall be made;
(iii) not less than ten hours of instrument time of which not
more than five hours may be on an approved simulator; and
(iv) not less than five hours of flight time by night including
a minimum of ten take-offs and ten landings as Pilot-in-Command
as (sole manipulator of controls) carried out within six months
immediately precedings the date of application for licence.
(f) Flying Training— He shall have completed the flying
training in accordance with the syllabus prescribed by the Director-General.
(g) Other Requirements— He shall be in possession of a current
Flight Radio Telephone Operator’s Licence for operation of
radio telephone apparatus on board an aircraft issued by the Director-General.
(h) Skill— He shall have demonstrated his competency to
perform the procedures and manoeuvres prescribed in the syllabus
to the satisfaction of an examiner, on the type of aeroplane to
which the application for licence relates, within a period of
six months immediately preceding the date of application. The
competency shall be demonstrated in —
(i) general flying test by day;
(ii) general flying test by night;
(iii) a cross-country flight test by day consisting of a flight
of not less than two hundred fifty nautical miles in the course
of which at least one full stop landing at an aerodrome other
than the aerodrome of departure shall be made; and
(iv) a cross-country flying test by night consisting of a flight
of not less than one hundred twenty nautical miles returning to
the place of departure without landing elsewhere.
2. Validity— The period of validity shall commence from
the date of issue or renewal of the licence. The licence shall
be valid for a period specified in Rule 39C subject to compliance
with renewal requirements as stipulated in para 3 hereinafter.
3. Renewal— The licence may be renewed on receipt of satisfactory
evidence of the applicant —
(a) having undergone a medical examination in accordance with
para 1(c) above;
(b) having satisfactorily completed not less than ten hours of
flight time as Pilot-in-Command (Fifty percent of flight time
as Co-Pilot may be counted towards the requirement of flight time
as Pilot-in-Command) within a period of six months immediately
preceding the date of application for renewal; or in lieu thereof,
having satisfactorily completed the general flying test by day
and night as laid down in clause (h) of paragraph 1 within the
same period;
(c) having a current Flight Radio Telephone Operator’s Licence
for operation of radio telephone apparatus on board an aircraft,
issued by the Director-General.
4. Aircraft Rating— (a) The licence shall indicate the types
of aeroplane the holder is entitled to fly.
(b) An open rating for all single piston engine type of aeroplane
having an all-up-weight not exceeding one thousand five hundred
Kgs. may also be granted if he has completed not less than one
thousand hours of flight time on such types of aeroplanes including
not less than five hundred hours as Pilot-in-Command and has at
least four different types of aircraft entered in the aircraft
rating of his licence :
Provided that the privileges of the open rating shall be exercised
only after having undergone a ground and flight familiarisation
with a flight Instructor or an approved Examiner and a certificate
to this effect shall be recorded by the Examiner in the pilot’s
log book, before the pilot is released to exercise the privileges
of open rating on that type of aircraft.
(c) Instructor’s Rating— Instructor’s Rating entitles
the holder to impart flying instructions. The privileges and conditions
for the issue of these ratings are laid down in Sections Q &
R.
(d) Instrument Rating— Instrument Rating entitles the holder
to fly under Instrument Flight Rules. Conditions for issue of
this rating are laid down in Section O.
5. Extension of Aircraft Rating— For extension of aircraft
rating, to include an additional aeroplane, an applicant shall
be required to produce evidence of having passed a written examination
in Aircraft and Engines as mentioned in para 1(d) and of having
satisfactorily completed the general flying tests by day and night
in accordance with para 1(h) in respect of the type of aeroplane
for which the extension of aircraft rating is desired. The flying
tests shall have been completed within a period of six months
immediately preceding the date of application for extension of
the aircraft rating.
6. Privileges— Subject to the validity of endorsements and
ratings in the licence and compliance with the relevant provisions
of Rule 39B, Rule 39C and Rule 42 of the Aircraft Rules, 1937,
the privileges of the holder of a Commercial Pilot’s Licence
shall be :—
(a) to exercise all the privileges of Private Pilot’s Licence;
(b) to act as Pilot-in-Command of any aeroplane having an all-up-weight
not exceeding five thousand seven hundred Kgs. and which is entered
in the aircraft rating of his licence provided that when passengers
are to be carried at night, he shall have carried out within a
period of six months immediately preceding the date of the intended
flight not less than ten take-offs and ten landings by night as
Pilot-in-Command:
(c) to act as Co-Pilot of any aeroplane where a Co-Pilot is required
to be carried and which is entered in the aircraft rating of his
licence :
Provided that for all flights under the Instrument Flight Rules,
either as Pilot-in-Command or as Co-Pilot, he shall have a current
Instrument Rating :
Provided further that for all flights as Co-Pilot of transport
aeroplanes having an all-up-weight exceeding five thousand seven
hundred Kgs. he shall have carried out within the preceding six
months of the intended flight, appropriate proficiency checks
in respect of that type of aircraft as required by the Director-General.
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