PPL/Student
This is the minimum age required to become a private pilot for airplanes, helicopters, or other powered aircraft (excluding gliders or balloons).
What is seventeen years old?
This enables commercial pilots to fly in more challenging weather conditions.
What is an Instrument?
This ICAO Annex covers the transport of dangerous goods by air.
What is Annex 18?
The minimum age required to be a CFI.
What is 18 years old?
This Medical Certificate is required for Airline Transport Pilots privileges.
What is first class medical?
To get a private pilot certificate for an airplane single-engine rating, you must log at least this many total hours of flight time, including training and solo time.
What is forty hours?
You must be at least this age to qualify as a commercial pilot.
What is 18 years old?
This is the minimum age requirement for a standard Airline Transport Pilot certificate.
What is 23 years old?
Under 14 CFR 61.183, a person must hold at least this type of pilot certificate to be eligible for a flight instructor certificate.
What is a commercial pilot certificate or airline transport pilot certificate?
This Medical Certificate is required for Commercial Pilot privileges
What is second class medical?
A student pilot must receive and log training in the make and model of aircraft they’ll fly solo, and show proficiency and safety, as judged by this individual.
What is an authorized instructor?
This “basic six” instrument set, also called the "six pack," is a standard adopted by commercial aviation.
What are the six basic flight instruments?
Applicants for an ATP certificate must be able to do this with the English language.
What is read, write, and speak?
Before applying for a flight instructor certificate, this knowledge test must be passed in addition to the FOI exam
What is the flight instructor knowledge test?
This Medical Certificate is required for Student Pilot, Recreational Pilot, and Private Pilot privileges.
What is third class medical?
To legally fly solo, a student pilot must have a logbook endorsement for the aircraft make and model received within how many days of the solo flight?
What is 90 days?
The FAA requires a minimum of this many flight hours for the Instrument Rating course.
What is 40 hours?
Holding at least this level of pilot certificate and instrument rating is a prerequisite for ATP certification.
What is a Commercial Pilot Certificate with an Instrument Rating?
This section of 14 CFR Part 61 requires a flight instructor to have logged this kind of training within the preceding 24 calendar months to be eligible for renewal.
What is a flight instructor refresher course (FIRC) or practical test (checkride)?
This Allows eligible pilots to operate certain aircraft without holding a current FAA medical certificate
What is BASICMED?
A student pilot may not act as pilot in command if carrying passengers, flying for hire, or operating in this type of airspace without proper training and an endorsement
What is Class B, C, or D airspace?
These six instruments are considered the fundamental flight instruments in an aircraft.
What are the airspeed indicator, attitude indicator, altimeter, turn coordinator, heading indicator, and vertical speed indicator?
The total minimum flight time required for an unrestricted ATP certificate.
What is 1500 hurs?
In accordance with CFR 61.197, a flight instructor certificate expires after this period unless renewed.
What is 24 calendar months?
A physician designated by the FAA to conduct flight physicals and issue medical certificates.
What is an AME?(Aircraft Medical Examiner)