Commercial Pilot Privileges and Limitations | What You Can (and Can't) Do

So this is the, for an airplane, you need about, as a minimum, 200 hours of, 250 hours, sorry, of total time.

So wherever you are now, you look at your logbook and you say, okay, I've got this many hours.

This is how many more I have to go.

Then there'll be something in here, which you might not have known, which will save you an enormous amount of money.

So I think that might ring the bell for you, right? We'll get

there.

When it comes, I'll say, this is it.

Of that 250 hours you need, 50 hours can be, this is it, in a flight training device.

So I don't know if you know that, but 50 hours of the 250 you can use in an approved training device, an AATD, an FST, a flight training device, FTD, a full motion sim.

So if you have access to a sim, we would call them sims, but aviation training, AATDs, advanced aviation training device, 50 hours of time can be credited towards your commercial pilot certificate.

So that's pretty good.

When you did your instrument rating, 20 hours could be attributed.

So you got 30, maybe you did more and that time can count then towards the commercial.

Okay.

So now all you have to pay for is the SIM, which is generally cheaper than the airplane.

And you do have to have an instructor.

So for that to be logged.

So anyway, there's that.

So when you're doing your instrument rating, you know, make sure you're using a flight training device so you can get credit towards the 50 hours.

You know, that's, that can save you a bit of, of time and money.

Okay, then you need 100 hours in powered aircraft, okay? So it could be such that you fly helicopters, or maybe like we're old, he flies gyroplanes.

And in order to be a rotorcraft helicopter commercial pilot, you'll need 150 hours, right? 150 hours.

And so you'll need an extra hundred in this case.

Well, you've got the simulator provision, pretty handy.

And of course, then you got to learn how to fly an airplane too, which can take a while.

So this is the, for an airplane, you need about, as a minimum, 200 hours of, 250 hours, sorry, of total time.

So wherever you are now, you look at your logbook and you say, okay, I've got this many hours.

This is how many more I have to go.

Then there'll be something in here, which you might not have known, which will save you an enormous amount of money.

So I think that might ring the bell for you, right? We'll get

there.

When it comes, I'll say, this is it.

Of that 250 hours you need, 50 hours can be, this is it, in a flight training device.

So I don't know if you know that, but 50 hours of the 250 you can use in an approved training device, an AATD, an FST, a flight training device, FTD, a full motion sim.

So if you have access to a sim, we would call them sims, but aviation training, AATDs, advanced aviation training device, 50 hours of time can be credited towards your commercial pilot certificate.

So that's pretty good.

When you did your instrument rating, 20 hours could be attributed.

So you got 30, maybe you did more and that time can count then towards the commercial.

Okay.

So now all you have to pay for is the SIM, which is generally cheaper than the airplane.

And you do have to have an instructor.

So for that to be logged.

So anyway, there's that.

So when you're doing your instrument rating, you know, make sure you're using a flight training device so you can get credit towards the 50 hours.

You know, that's, that can save you a bit of, of time and money.

Okay, then you need 100 hours in powered aircraft, okay? So it could be such that you fly helicopters, or maybe like we're old, he flies gyroplanes.

And in order to be a rotorcraft helicopter commercial pilot, you'll need 150 hours, right? 150 hours.

And so you'll need an extra hundred in this case.

Well, you've got the simulator provision, pretty handy.

And of course, then you got to learn how to fly an airplane too, which can take a while.