HOW TRAINING WORKS
Meet with an instructor to review your certificates, ratings, and logbook.
Identify the commercial requirements you have already completed.
Build a training and hour-building plan around your remaining requirements.
Complete ground instruction and advanced flight training.
Develop commercial maneuvers to FAA standards.
Prepare for the knowledge test, oral examination, and practical flight test.
Pass your checkride and earn your Commercial Pilot Certificate.
READY TO TAKE THE NEXT STEP?
Contact Home Field Aviation to review your logbook and build a commercial pilot training plan around your experience and career goals.
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COMMERCIAL PILOT TRAINING IN JACKSONVILLE, NC
A Commercial Pilot Certificate is the next major step for pilots who want to fly professionally. Training develops greater precision, stronger decision-making, and a deeper understanding of aircraft performance and regulations.
A Commercial Pilot Certificate allows you to be compensated for certain types of flying, subject to applicable FAA regulations and operating requirements. The certificate alone does not authorize every type of commercial aviation operation.
WHY EARN A COMMERCIAL PILOT CERTIFICATE?
Commercial pilot training can help you:
Develop professional-level flying skills
Qualify for permitted paid flying opportunities
Prepare for Certified Flight Instructor training
Continue toward an airline or professional aviation career
Improve aircraft control, precision, and decision-making
Build the knowledge expected of a professional pilot
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
Commercial pilot training may include:
Advanced aircraft control
Chandelles
Lazy eights
Eights on pylons
Steep turns
Power-off 180-degree accuracy landings
Precision takeoffs and landings
Advanced navigation and cross-country planning
Aircraft performance and limitations
Commercial pilot privileges and limitations
Emergency operations
Aeronautical decision-making and risk management
FAA knowledge-test and checkride preparation
Your instructor will review your current experience and create a training plan based on the requirements you have already completed.
COMMERCIAL PILOT REQUIREMENTS
To earn a Commercial Pilot Certificate for a single-engine airplane under Part 61, you must:
Be at least 18 years old
Be able to read, speak, write, and understand English
Hold at least a Private Pilot Certificate
Complete the required ground and flight training
Receive the required instructor endorsements
Pass the FAA Commercial Pilot knowledge test
Meet the applicable aeronautical-experience requirements
Pass the oral examination and practical flight test
For a single-engine airplane rating, the FAA generally requires at least 250 total hours of flight time. Those hours must include specific amounts of:
Powered-aircraft and airplane time
Pilot-in-command time
Cross-country time
Instrument training
Training in a complex, turbine-powered, or technically advanced airplane
Day and night cross-country training
Solo flight or flight while performing the duties of pilot in command
Checkride preparation
Commercial applicants must also complete the required long cross-country flight and night-flight experience.
An Instrument Rating is not required to earn the Commercial Pilot Certificate, but certain commercial privileges may be limited without one. Most pilots pursuing professional aviation complete their Instrument Rating first.