Estimated Cost

• Cost depends upon how much time building is needed to reach 250 hours.
• Minimum training time for the commercial certificate is 20 hours. This number can vary as well.

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Requirements

A person who applies for a commercial pilot certificate with an airplane category and multi-engine class rating must log at least 250 hours of flight time as a pilot that consists of at least:
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• 100 hours in powered aircraft, of which 50 hours must be in airplanes
• 100 hours of pilot-in-command flight time, which includes at least,
  • 50 hours in airplanes
  • 50 hours in cross-country flight of which at least 10 hours must be in airplanes
• 20 hours of training on the areas of operation listed in §61.127(b)(2) of this part that includes at least--
  • 10 hours of instrument training using a view-limiting device including attitude instrument flying, partial panel skills, recovery from unusual flight attitudes, and intercepting and tracking navigational systems.
    • 5 hours of the 10 hours required on instrument training must be in a multi-engine airplane
  • 10 hours of training in a multi-engine airplane that has a retractable landing gear, flaps, and controllable pitch propellers.
•  One 2-hour cross country flight in a multi-engine airplane in daytime
  • conditions that consists of a total straight-line distance of more than 100 nautical miles from the original point of departure
• One 2-hour cross country flight in a multi-engine airplane in nighttime
  • conditions that consists of a total straight-line distance of more than 100 nautical miles from the original point of departure
• 3 hours in a multi-engine airplane, with an authorized instructor, in preparation for the practical test
  • within the preceding 2 calendar months from the month of the test
• 10 hours of solo flight time in a multi-engine airplane
  • Or 10 hours of flight time performing the duties of pilot in command in a multi-engine airplane, with an authorized instructor
  • (either of which may be credited towards the flight time requirement in paragraph (b)(2) of this section), on the areas of operation listed in §61.127(b)(2) of this part that includes at least--
• 1 cross-country flight of not less than 300 nautical miles total distance
  • landings at a minimum of 3 points
    • one of which is a straight-line distance of at least 250 nautical miles from the original departure point
    • However, if this requirement is being met in Hawaii, the longest segment need only have a straight-line distance of at least 150 nautical miles
•  5 hours in night VFR conditions
  • 10 takeoffs and 10 landings with each landing involving a flight with a traffic pattern, at an airport with an operating control tower