PPL/Student
This is one of the three documents you are legally required to carry when exercising your student pilot certificate privileges.
What is a pilot certificate, photo identification, or medical certificate?
This is the minimum total flight time required to be eligible for a commercial pilot certificate under Part 61.
What is 250 hours?
This is the minimum age you must be to obtain an Airline Transport Pilot certificate.
What is 23 years old?
To apply for a Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) certificate under Part 61, you must hold at least this pilot certificate.
What is a commercial pilot certificate?
This class of medical certificate is required to act as pilot in command of an airline transport pilot operation.
What is a First-Class Medical Certificate?
Before a student pilot can operate an aircraft in solo flight, they must receive this specific logbook entry from an authorized instructor for the specific make and model of aircraft to be flown
What is a solo flight endorsement?
Under Part 61, this many hours of instrument flight time are required for an instrument rating.
What is 40 hours?
For the ATP certificate, you must have logged at least this many hours of night flight time.
What is 100 hours?
A CFI may not endorse a student for a practical test unless they have provided this type of review and determined the applicant is prepared.
What is a required ground and flight review of the applicable knowledge and proficiency?
Under Part 61, a third-class medical certificate for a pilot under age 40 is valid for this many months.
What is 60 months (5 years)?
Before flying solo, a student pilot must demonstrate satisfactory knowledge on a test administered by this person.
Who is an authorized instructor?
To act as PIC under IFR or in weather conditions less than VFR minimums, a pilot must have logged this in the preceding 6 calendar months.
What are 6 instrument approaches, holding procedures, and intercepting/tracking courses using navigation systems?
Part 61 regulations that govern ATP certification are issued by this government agency.
What is the FAA?
Under Part 61, this is the minimum flight instructor certificate a pilot must hold to give instrument training for the issuance of an instrument rating.
What is a Certified Flight Instructor – Instrument?
If a pilot is diagnosed with a disqualifying medical condition but wishes to continue flying, they may apply for this special issuance.
What is a Special Issuance Authorization (SIA)?
A student pilot cannot act as pilot in command of an aircraft carrying this.
What are passengers?
This is the maximum allowable time between passing the instrument rating knowledge test and taking the practical test.
What is 24 calendar months?
The ATP practical test includes an oral exam and this type of flight test.
What is a check ride?
To endorse a student pilot's logbook for solo flight privileges, an instructor must first ensure this student is proficient to operate the aircraft safely under the known circumstances.
What determines whether the student is prepared to conduct the flight safely?
According to 14 CFR 61.53, a pilot may not act as a required crewmember while they know they have a medical condition that does this.
What is makes them unable to meet the requirements for the medical certificate?
A student pilot may not operate an aircraft in solo flight with a flight or surface visibility of less than this many statute miles during daylight hours.
What is 3 statute miles?
Under Part 61, a commercial pilot applicant must log at least this many hours of complex or technically advanced aircraft time.
What is 10 hours?
This subject area is heavily tested on the ATP knowledge exam and involves the performance and limitations of the aircraft.
What is aerodynamics and aircraft systems?
This is the minimum total flight time a pilot must have before applying for a flight instructor certificate under Part 61.
What is 250 hours?
This FAA medical certificate is required when exercising commercial pilot privileges other than ATP operations.
What is a Second-Class Medical Certificate?