Section J
Commercial Pilot’s Licence (Aeroplanes)
1. Requirements for issue of Licence— An applicant for a Commercial Pilot’s Licence shall satisfy the following requirements:—
(a) Age— He shall be not less than Eighteen years of
age on the date of application:
(b) Educational Qualification— He shall have passed
Class Ten plus Two or an equivalent examination with Physics and Mathematics,
from a recognized Board/University.
(c) Medical Fitness— He shall produce on a prescribed proforma a certificate of physical fitness from an approved
Medical Board after undergoing a medical examination during which he shall have
established his medical fitness on the basis of compliance with the
requirements as notified by the Director-General under Rule 39B.
(d) Knowledge— He shall pass a written examination in
Air Regulations, Air Navigation Meteorology and aircraft and Engines and
Signals (practical) examination for interpretation of aural and visual signals,
as per the syllabus prescribed by the Director-General :
Provided that the holder of a current Commercial
Pilot’s Licence (Helicopters) shall be required to
pass an examination in Aircraft and Engines only.
(e) Experience— He shall produce evidence of having satisfactorily
completed as a pilot of an aeroplane on the date of application for licence not less than two hundred hours of flight time,
which shall include—
(i)
not less than one hundred hours of flight time as Pilot-in-Command of which not
less than fifteen hours shall have been completed within a period of six months
immediately preceding the date of application for licence;
(ii) not
less than twenty hours of cross-country flight time as Pilot-in-Command
including a cross-country flight of not less than three hundred nautical miles
in the course of which full stop landings at two different aerodromes shall be
made;
(iii) not less than ten hours of
instrument time of which not more than five hours may be on an approved
simulator; and
(iv) not less than
five hours of flight time by night including a minimum of ten take-offs and ten
landings as Pilot-in-Command as (sole manipulator of controls) carried out
within six months immediately precedings the date of
application for licence.
Provided that in case of an applicant who is in possession of a
Commercial Pilot’s Licence (Helicopters/Airline
Transport Pilot’s Licence (Helicopters) and who has satisfactorily
completed not less than 1000 hours of flight time as Pilot-in-Command of a
helicopter, the above experience requirement of two hundred hours as pilot of
an aeroplane shall be reduced to one hundred hours,
which shall include –
(i) Not less
than seventy five hours of flight time as pilot-in-command including a minimum
of twenty five hours of cross country flight time and ten hours of instrument
time of which not less than five hours may be on approved simulator;
(ii)
Not less than five hours of flight
time by night including ten takeoffs and landing patterns; and
(iii) Not less than ten hours of flight time on aeroplane within a period of six months immediately
preceding the date of application for issue of licence.
(f) Flying Training— He shall have completed the
flying training in accordance with the syllabus prescribed by the
Director-General.
(g) Other Requirements— He shall be in possession of a
current Flight Radio Telephone Operator’s Licence for
operation of radio telephone apparatus on board an aircraft issued by the
Director-General.
(h) Skill— He shall have demonstrated his
competency to perform the procedures and manoeuvres
prescribed in the syllabus to the satisfaction of an examiner, on the type of aeroplane to which the application for licence
relates, within a period of six months immediately preceding the date of
application. The Director General may, however, allow Skill Test or part
thereof to be carried out on aircraft/ approved Zero Flight Time Training
simulator level ‘D’ for the type of aircraft. The competency shall be
demonstrated as in —
(i) general flying
test by day;
(ii) general
flying test by night;
(iii) a cross-country flight test by day
consisting of a flight of not less than two hundred fifty nautical miles in the
course of which at least one full stop landing at an aerodrome other than the
aerodrome of departure shall be made; and
(iv) a
cross-country flying test by night consisting of a flight of not less than one
hundred twenty nautical miles returning to the place of departure without
landing elsewhere.
2. Validity — The licence shall be valid for a period as specified in Rule
39C.
3. Renewal— The licence may be renewed on receipt of satisfactory evidence
of the applicant —
(a) having
undergone a medical examination in accordance with para 1(c) above;
(b) having satisfactorily
completed not less than ten hours of flight time as Pilot-in-Command (Fifty
percent of flight time as Co-Pilot may be counted towards the requirement of
flight time as Pilot-in-Command) within a period of six months immediately
preceding the date of application for renewal; or in lieu thereof, having
satisfactorily completed the general flying test by day and night as laid down
in clause (h) of paragraph 1 within the same period;
(c) having
a current Flight Radio Telephone Operator’s Licence
for operation of radio telephone apparatus on board an aircraft, issued by the
Director-General.
4. Aircraft
Rating— (a) The licence
shall indicate the types of aeroplane the holder is
entitled to fly.
(b)
An open rating for all single piston engine type of aeroplane
having an allupweight not exceeding one thousand five
hundred Kgs. may also be granted if he has completed not less than one thousand
hours of flight time on such types of aeroplanes
including not less than five hundred hours as Pilot-in-Command and has at least
four different types of aircraft entered in the aircraft rating of his licence:
Provided
that the privileges of the open rating shall be exercised only after having
undergone a ground and flight familiarisation with a
flight Instructor or an approved Examiner and a certificate to this effect shall
be recorded by the Examiner in the pilot’s log book, before the pilot is
released to exercise the privileges of open rating on that type of aircraft.
(c) Instructor’s Rating—
Instructor’s Rating entitles the holder to impart flying instructions. The
privileges and conditions for the issue of these ratings are laid down in
Sections Q & R.
(d) Instrument Rating— Instrument Rating
entitles the holder to fly under Instrument Flight Rules. Conditions for issue
of this rating are laid down in Section O.
5. Extension of Aircraft Rating— For extension of aircraft rating to include an additional type of aeroplane, an applicant shall have passed a written examination in Aircraft and Engines as mentioned in clause (d) of paragraph 1 and shall have acquired, under appropriate supervision, experience in flying the aircraft of such type or on approved flight simulator in accordance with the syllabus prescribed by the Director-General followed by skill test as laid down by the Director-General.
5A.Proficiency Check―
(a) In order to act as a co-pilot of transport aeroplanes having an
all-up weight exceeding five thousand seven hundred kilograms, the licence holder shall be required to undergo an appropriate
proficiency check as specified by the Director-General, in respect of the type
of aircraft to be flown.
(b) The proficiency check carried out as per para (a) shall be valid for
a period of six months from the date of the check and shall be renewed for a
further period of six months at a time.
(c) In the case of renewal, the period of validity shall commence from
the date of expiry of the previous validity provided that the check has been
carried out within two months preceding the date of expiry.
6. Privileges— Subject to the validity
of endorsements and ratings in the licence and
compliance with the relevant provisions of Rule 39B, Rule 39C and Rule 42 of
the Aircraft Rules, 1937, the privileges of the holder of a Commercial Pilot’s Licence shall be :—
(a) to exercise all
the privileges of Private Pilot’s Licence;
(b) to act as Pilot-in-Command of any aeroplane having an all-up-weight not exceeding five thousand
seven hundred Kgs. and which is entered in the aircraft rating of his licence provided that when passengers are to be carried at
night, he shall have carried out within a period of six months immediately
preceding the date of the intended flight not less than ten take-offs and ten
landings by night as Pilot-in-Command:
(c) to act as Co-Pilot
of any aeroplane where a Co-Pilot is required to be
carried and which is entered in the aircraft rating of his licence
:
Provided that for all
flights under the Instrument Flight Rules, either as Pilot-in- Command or as
Co-Pilot, he shall have a current Instrument Rating:
Provided also that on attainment of the age of
sixty-five years, such privileges shall be restricted to that of Private
Pilot’s Licence (Aeroplanes).
[Amended by (i)
G.S.R No. 400 (E) dated 14th June, 2005
(ii)
G.S.R No. 307(E) dated 24th May, 2006
(iii)
G.S.R No. 19(E) dated 27th December 2007,
(iii) G.S.R
No. 68(E) dated 30th January 2009,
(iv) G. S. R. No. 11(E) dated 10th
January 2011
(v) G.S.R. No. 399(E) dated 31st March 2016,
(vi) GSR No. 1066(E) dated 25-10-2018,
(vii)
GSR No. 448(E) dated 20-06-2019]