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 within a period of five years immediately preceding the date of
application for licence not less than two hundred hours of flight time, which shall
include :-

1. 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;
   

2. 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.
   

3. Not less than ten hours of instrument time of which not more than five
   hours may be on an approved simulator; and
   

4. 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) and who has satisfactorily completed not less than one thousand 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

(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 competency shall be demonstrated
in --

1. Ggeneral flying test by day;
   

2. General flying test by night;
   

3. 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
   

4. 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.
   
   

1. Normal flight procedures and manoeuvres during all phases of flight.
   
2. Abnormal and emergency procedures and manoeuvres in the event of
   failures and malfunctions of equipment, such as power plant, systems and
   airframe.
   
3. where applicable, instrument procedures, including instrument approach,
   missed approach and landing procedures under normal, abnormal and
   emergency conditions, including simulated engine failure.
   
4. procedures for crew incapacitation and crew coordination including
   allocation of pilot tasks crew cooperation and use of check lists; and
   (ii) having satisfactorily completed the general flying tests by day and night in accordance with para 1(h) in respect of the type of aircraft for which the extension of aircraft rating is desired. Such flying tests shall have been completed within a period of six months immediately preceding the date of the application for extension of the aircraft rating.

1. To exercise all the privileges of Private Pilot’s Licence;
   
   
2. 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:
   
   
3. 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 further that for all flights as Co-Pilot of transport aeroplanes having an all-upweight exceeding five thousand seven hundred Kgs. he shall have carried out within the preceding six months of the intended flight, appropriate proficiency checks in respect of that type of aircraft as required by the Director-General.