ATP/Student
Instrument/Medical
Private
CFI/CFII
Commercial
100

Minimum age requirement for Private Pilot License

17 years old.

100

The minimum medical certificate required to act as PIC under IFR.

What is at least a Third-Class medical

100

This is the minimum age required to hold a Private Pilot Certificate?

What is 17 years old?

100

age requirement to become a CFI

What is 18 year old

100

This is the minimum age required to hold a Commercial Pilot Certificate under Part 61.

What is 18 years old?

200

Minimum rating and licenses needed to obtain ATP.

Commercial licence and instrument rating 

200

 what is the minimum fuel reserve required for a VFR flight during the day?

What is enough fuel to fly to the first point of intended landing plus 30 minutes at normal cruising speed.

200

This medical certificate class is required to act as PIC while exercising Private Pilot privileges.

What is a Third-Class Medical Certificate?

200

 must hold this licence to become a CFI

What is A commercial pilot or ATP licence

200

This medical certificate class is required to exercise Commercial Pilot privileges.

What is a Second-Class Medical Certificate?

300

Single Engine Rating Minimums 

40 hours flight time, 20 hours of flight training, 10 hours solo flight.

300

The acronym used to remember personal minimums affecting pilot fitness: Illness, Medication, Stress, Alcohol, Fatigue, Emotion.

What is IMSAFE? 

DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!

300

This is the minimum total flight time required for a Private Pilot Certificate under Part 61.

What is 40 hours?

300

you need this medical to be a CFI

What is a third-class medical

300

This is the minimum total flight time required for a Commercial Pilot Certificate?

What is 250 hours?

400

Set of rules that you follow when exercising ATP privileges.

Part 121 and Part 135

400

The maximum time a pilot may act as PIC after using supplemental oxygen at cabin pressure altitudes above 12,500 feet MSL up to 14,000 feet MSL.

What is 30 minutes?

400

This document must be carried by a pilot when acting as PIC under FAR 61.3.

What is a pilot certificate and photo ID?

400

A CFII does this

What is instructs and teaches a student all about the instruments when flying

400

This FAR section specifically lists the aeronautical experience requirements for a Commercial Pilot Certificate.

What is FAR 61.129?

500

To act as PIC in airline operations, an ATP must hold this minimum FAA medical certificate

What is a First-Class Medical Certificate?



500

  a pilot may not fly if they know they have a medical condition that makes them unsafe to fly

What is being medically fit to fly?

500

 this is the maximum number of passengers a Private Pilot may carry without violating compensation or hire rules.

What is as many as the aircraft is certificated for.

500

this specific condition must be met for a CFI to give flight instruction in an aircraft requiring a type rating, even if the instructor is not acting as PIC.


What is holding the appropriate aircraft type rating and being qualified to act as PIC in that aircraft?

500

A commercial pilot certificate allows a pilot to do this in an aircraft

What is act as pilot in command for compensation or hire?