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What Can You Do as a Commercial Pilot?

I can fly for compensation or hire

Limitation

If you get commercial pilot without instrument rating - can’t fly passengers over 50 nm or at night for compensation or hire

4 Main Groups

Part 121

Scheduled air service - big carriers

More strict standards - must have air operators certificate

Need ATP for part 121

Holding out there service for anyone who wants them

Advertising you’ll fly people for a price

Common Carriage

Holding out of a willingness to

Carry passengers or cargo

From point a to point b

For compensation or hire

Part 135

Unscheduled air service

On demand charter

Use of contracts - leases

Also involves holding out

Part 91

Flying for a business or corporate flight department

Company is not making money off the flying - less strict

Fly executives around the world to do what they need to do

Flying is strictly incidental to the business

Further the business but can’t make money off the flight specifically

Flying can’t be the business - no air operators certificate

119.1e Exemptions

Flight instructors

Hold out services to students

Nonstop commercial air tours

Must begin and end at same airport within 25 sm

Aerial work

Crop dusting

Banner towing

Aerial photography

Fire fighting

Emergency mail service

Heart surgery transport life saving medication

Ferry flights

Taking aircraft to prospective owner

Parachute jumper pilot

Operational Control

Having authority in initiating, exercising, and terminating the flight

Wet lease

Whole package - airplane and the pilot

No go under part 91 because you need certifications to offer an airplane

Lessor has operational control

Delta provides airplane and pilots - they have operational control over the flight

Dry lease

Plane and the pilot come separately

Can under part 91

The client has operational control usually

Currency

Commercial pilot certificate - can’t lose it

Can lose currency

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Private Carriage - FAR 119

Must be done under 135 and requires an air operators certificate

Everything from common carriage but holding out

Deciding whether it’s 91 or not 91

Wet lease or dry lease

Is the owner of the aircraft making money simply because the aircraft is flying (incidental to the business)

Who has operational control

Transport category aircraft must be operated as 121 or 135

Operations in Transport Category Aircraft (125 reg)

Jet powered with 10 or more seats and 12,500 lbs

Propeller driven with more than 19 seats or with a maximum takeoff weight greater than 19,000 lbs

Must be operated in 121 or 135 because it has the possibility of causing a lot more damage

Medical

EKG is every other 6 months for first class over 40

Stuff to look up

Statement of demonstrated ability - SODA

You would want this if you have a disqualifying medical condition

15 disqualifying factors

Back of commercial acs is where the matrices for the add ons are

Go through instrument stuff

Start

What you need to have on you document

Pilot’s certificate, medical, photo id

PIC - 91.3

Final authority for the safety of the aircraft

Medical

If you’re over 40 you need a first class medical every 6 months, but you need an EKG every year

1st class for 12 cal mo, 3rd class for 60 but the 12 is included so it’s actually 48

If you’re under 40 you have a medical for 60 months

Over 40 - 24 cal months

1st class - 6 months

2nd class - 12 months

3rd class - 24 cal mo

Commercial

Do you need a 2nd class medical to take a commercial checkride

No only 3rd

You need at least a 2nd class medical to do commercial

3rd class - PPL

2nd class - Commercial

1st class - ATP

If two required crewmembers (pilots) - only captain needs 1st, fo needs 2nd

If 3 crew members - captain and fo need 1st class

Basic Med

Substitution for an FAA medical

If you’ve previously held an FAA medical you can apply

Must have previously had a medical after 2006

Must take a course and see a licensed physician

24 cal mo course

48 cal months physician exam

Can fly IFR under basic med

Limitation of Basic Med

7 12,500 250 FL180

7 occupants, 12,500 lbs max takeoff weight (type rating), above 250 kts, no higher than FL180

If a plane is rated for 14000 lbs and you only load it up with 10000 can you fly under basic med

No

Can’t fly for hire under basic med

Category and Class

If you want a new class you need a new checkride

Airmen

Category - airplane, rotorcraft, balloon, lighter than air

Class - ASEL, AMEL, ASES, AMES

Aircraft

Category

Normal - +3.8, -1.52

Utility - +4.4, -1.76 - limited aerobatics

Aerobatic - +6, -3

Transport category - Jet powered with 10 or more seats, or max takeoff weight of greater than 12,500 lbs

Prop driven aircraft with more than 19 seats or with mtow of greater than 19,000 lbs

Limited category - Limited to a specific type of operation (crop dusting) with limited operational capabilities

Restricted and Military category - restrictions on who can fly them and what you can do with them

Can’t fly for hire

Experimental - Can’t fly for compensation or hire

Get permission from FAA but built by amateurs

Provisional - temporary airworthiness certificate - only valid for 12 months

Who can do a flight review

CFI, CFII, military instructor, check airman, DPE

How to prove you got one

Endorsement

Instrument Currency

6HIT

Must do 6HIT - with a safety pilot after 6 months

Count backwards to 6 and then forwards 6 months for currency

Constant speed vs controllable pitch propeller

G7 isn’t controllable - it does it automatically, no blue lever

High Altitude Endorsement - 61.31

Service ceiling or max operating altitude of above 25,000 ft and needs to be pressurized to need the endorsement

Rare because it comes with your type rating

Landings

Multi engine land landings wouldn’t could for single engine currency

Instrument currency

Doesn’t say anything about same category and class

Could do 6 HIT in multi and it would count for single

Can do it drunk in the sim

What is airworthy

Conforms to its type design - (type certificate data sheet) TCDS

Safe to fly

Airworthy

DIET

Documents

Inspections

Equipement

Type design

Can’t leave POH or AFM in the baggage compartment, must be accessible

Airworthiness certificate can cover registration but airworthiness certificate has to be visible

Can airworthiness certificate can become invalid

If it can’t conform to its type design

If it gets destroyed

If there is a transfer of ownership

If more than 30 days has elapsed since the death of the owner

Special flight permit

Can get one to ferry an aircraft for maintenance

Can get one to transfer aircraft to new owner

Who is responsible for maintaining aircraft

Owner operator

Who is responsible for deciding it’s airworthy

PIC

E.L.T

Every 12 cal mo you need inspection, over stuff you change the battery

Can fly without ELT for up to 90 days while waiting to get new one installed - can’t fly for compensation or hire

Not equipped to carry more than one person

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Temp gauges for liquid cooled (not g7) (oil isn’t liquid cooled)

Float type fuel sensor (fuel gauges) part 123

The fuel gauge needs to indicate that there is some fuel in the tank if there is fuel in the tank, and indicate there is no fuel in the tank if there’s no fuel in the tank

Anti collision lights - strobes

Could be rotating beacon but we have the strobes

Special airworthiness information bulletins

Made by FAA and nonregulatory

Engine

Spark plugs, mags, and engine are own self sustaining system

Engine powers mags, mags power spark plugs

Impulse coupling

Spring loaded

Helps generate spark at low RPM because starter doesn’t have the power to spin at high RPM

Used during starting and low RPM

Once the engine starts going faster - then the flyweights are tucked in