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The Airline
Transport Pilot Certificate
    
      
Overview
For an easy understanding, this information has been summarized for
you and consequently does not contain all exceptions! Please refer always to
current FAR's before acting upon it!
FAR 61.153 [Eligibility Requirements]
To be eligible for an airline transport pilot certificate, you must:
- Be at least 23 years of age.
- Be able to read, speak, write and understand the English language.
- Be of good moral character.
- Hold at least a commercial pilot certificate and an instrument rating.
- Meet the aeronautical experience requirements that apply to the aircraft
category and class rating sought.
- Pass the knowledge test.
- Pass the practical test.
To exercise the privileges of an airline transport pilot
certificate, you must hold a current first-class medical certificate. For more
information on medical certificates check with your flight instructor.
FAR 61.159 [Aeronautical Experience:
Airplane Category Rating]
If you are applying for an airline transport pilot certificate with an airplane
category and class rating, you must have at least 1,500 hours of total time as a
pilot that includes at least:
- 500 hours of cross-country flight time.
- 100 hours of night flight time. (If you have performed at least 20 night
takeoffs and landings to a full stop, you may substitute each additional night
takeoff and landing to a full stop for 1 hour of night flight time. However,
not more than 25 hours of night flight time may be credited in this manner!)
- 75 hours of instrument flight time in actual or simulated instrument
conditions. (A maximum of 25 hours, or if the training was accomplished in
accordance with Part 142, a maximum of 50 hours of simulated instrument time
in an approved flight simulator or approved flight training device that
represents an airplane may be credited.)
- 250 hours of flight time in an airplane as a pilot in command, which
includes at least 100 hours cross-country flight time and 25 hours of night
flight time.
- Not more than 100 hours of the total aeronautical experience requirements
for this rating may be obtained in accordance with FAA Part 142 in an approved
flight simulator or approved flight training device that represents an
airplane.
The Airline Transport Pilot completion course
emphasizes the professional operation of the multiengine aircraft in the
instrument environment, with special emphasis on preparation for the ATP
Practical Oral/Flight Test. The course is conducted one on one with your
flight instructor, and can take as little as 5 days to complete. This course
is structured for professional pilots who already possess basic multi-engine
and instrument flying skills, and have logged the minimum flight times for the
rating. Students who do not possess multiengine competency and/or lack
instrument flight proficiency may find that additional flight training time
will be required, at additional cost.
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