Eligibility Requirements
The minimum required age to obtain a private pilot certificate in the U.S.
What is 17 years old?
This rating allows you to fly only in visual weather conditions.
What is a VFR rating?
A private pilot may share this with passengers, provided the expenses involve only fuel, oil, airport expenditures, or rental fees.
What is the pro rata share of operating expenses?
The four forces acting on an aircraft in flight.
What are lift, weight, thrust, and drag?
This is the minimum number of hours of flight training you need to receive from an authorized instructor.
What is 20 hours
This document is required to act as pilot in command of a civil aircraft
What is a pilot certificate?
This rating allows a pilot to fly in clouds and low visibility using instruments.
What is an Instrument Rating?
A private pilot may not act as pilot-in-command of an aircraft carrying passengers or property for this purpose.
What is compensation or hire?
The instrument that indicates the aircraft’s attitude relative to the horizon.
What is the attitude indicator?
You must complete this many hours of cross-country flight training with an instructor.
What is 3 hours?
Private pilots may receive this type of training without needing an instructor to be present onboard.
What is solo flight training?
This rating is required to operate aircraft with more than one engine.
What is a Multi-Engine Rating?
A private pilot can fly as pilot in command in these kinds of flights if the sponsor and pilot follow certain rules.
What are charitable, nonprofit, or community event flights?
The altitude measurement that uses atmospheric pressure at sea level as a reference.
What is pressure altitude?
This is the minimum number of hours of solo flight time required for a private pilot certificate.
What is 10 hours?
A private pilot certificate allows you to fly for this purpose, which excludes compensation or hire
What is non-commercial or personal use?
This rating lets a pilot land on water instead of a runway.
What is a Seaplane Rating?
A private pilot who sells airplanes and has logged at least two hundred hours may do this for a potential buyer.
What is demonstrating an aircraft in flight?
The airspeed at which an airplane stalls in a specified configuration.
What is the stall speed?
This is the minimum number of hours of solo cross-country flight time required.
What is 5 hours?
This FAA test covers topics such as airspace, regulations, weather, and navigation, and must be passed before the practical exam.
What is the Private Pilot Airman Knowledge Test?
This rating allows you to fly as pilot-in-command of a jet or turboprop with a max takeoff weight above 12,500 lbs.
What is a Type Rating?
Private pilots who meet requirements may be pilot in command when towing these kinds of aircraft.
What are gliders or unpowered ultralight vehicles?
The FAA regulation requiring pilots to log at least three takeoffs and landings within the previous 90 days to carry passengers.
What is the recent flight experience requirement?
This is the minimum number of hours of flight training needed in preparation for the practical test within 60 days of the test.
What is 3 hours?