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Commercial Pilot's License

Preparing For Your Pilot Career

Call or text 828-777-0719 and let's form a plan!

Unlock Your Aviation Potential

Turn your passion for flying into a professional credential. A Commercial Pilot Certificate is the step that opens doors to paid flying opportunities—whether your goal is flight instructing, scenic tours, skydive operations, cargo, banner towing, corporate flying, or the airlines.

Pilot in Uniform

What You’ll Learn

Buzzard’s Roost Aviation

Commercial training is about precision, professionalism, and higher standards. We focus on:

  • Commercial maneuvers and ACS standards

  • Aeronautical decision-making & risk management

  • Professional-level navigation and cross-country planning

  • Complex/high-performance aircraft concepts (as required)

  • Checkride prep: oral + flight

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Aircraft Cockpit View

Basic Requirements

Buzzard’s Roost Aviation

To be eligible for a Commercial Pilot Certificate, you must have:

  • At least 18 years of age

  • Third-class medical certificate (or higher)

  • Commercial Pilot Knowledge Test (minimum passing score: 70%)

  • FAA Practical Test (Checkride)

  • Flight training and aeronautical experience as outlined below

  • Required ground instruction on aeronautical knowledge areas listed in FAR 61.125

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Flight Hour Requirements

Flight Hour Requirements

Single Engine Land (SEL)

Applicant must have at least 250 hours total time including:

100 hours PIC, including:

  • 50 hours in airplanes

  • 50 hours cross-country (with 10 hours in airplanes)

20 hours of training, including:

  1. 10 hours instrument training

  2. 10 hours in a complex aircraft

  3. 2-hour day cross-country with >100 NM straight-line distance from departure

  4. 2-hour night cross-country with >100 NM straight-line distance from departure

  5. 3 hours in a single-engine airplane with an instructor within the preceding 2 calendar months in preparation for the practical test

10 hours solo or dual flight time, including:

  1. One cross-country of at least 300 NM total distance with landings at 3+ points, one of which is a straight-line distance of at least 250 NM from the original departure point

  2. 5 hours night VFR, including 10 takeoffs and 10 landings in the pattern at an airport with an operating control tower

Flight Hour Requirements

Multi - Engine Land (MEL)

Applicant must have at least 250 hours total time including:

100 hours PIC, including:

  • 50 hours in airplanes

  • 50 hours cross-country (with 10 hours in airplanes)

20 hours of training, including:

  1. 10 hours instrument training

  2. 10 hours in a multi-engine complex aircraft

  3. 2-hour day cross-country in a multi-engine airplane with >100 NM straight-line distance from departure

  4. 2-hour night cross-country in a multi-engine airplane with >100 NM straight-line distance from departure

  5. 3 hours in a multi-engine airplane with an instructor within the preceding 2 calendar months in preparation for the practical test

10 hours solo or dual flight time in a multi-engine airplane, including:

  1. One cross-country of at least 300 NM total distance with landings at 3+ points, one of which is a straight-line distance of at least 250 NM from the original departure point

  2. 5 hours night VFR, including 10 takeoffs and 10 landings in the pattern at an airport with an operating control tower

How Training Works at Buzzard's Roost Aviation

We’ll help you build a plan that makes sense for your budget, schedule, and career goals.

Typical path:

  1. Review your logbook + verify what already counts

  2. Build a time-building plan (XC strategy + night + instrument)

  3. Complete complex/high-performance training (as needed)

  4. Dedicated commercial maneuver training + mock checkride

  5. Knowledge test support + oral prep + checkride scheduling

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 Call Patrick at 828-777-0719

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