Commercial Pilot Licence
The aim of the modular Commercial Pilot Licence training course is to provide you with necessary flight training up to the standards required for a CPL(A) holders. By holding CPL(A) you become a professional pilot with privileges granted by Subpart D to Part FCL, paragraph FCL.305.
The CPL(A) training is usually one of the last trainings on the Frozen ATPL path. There is no maximum nor the minimum time until which you have to reach the CPL(A) milestone. It could easily take you 10 or more years to collect all modules required for Frozen ATPL qualification. Commercial Pilot Licence is one of them. However you have to complete your CPL(A) skill test latest within 36 months.
CPL(A) privileges
Your PPL(A) privileges also covering all privileges of "lower" LAPL(A) licence. The privileges of the PPL(A) are to act without remuneration as pilot-in-command or co-pilot of aeroplanes or TMGs engaged in non-commercial operations.
You may receive remuneration provided you are an instrucotr or examiner for:
- the provision of flight instruction for the LAPL(A) or PPL(A);
- the conduct of skill tests and proficiency checks for the LAPL(A) or PPL(A) licences;
- the flight training, testing and checking for the class ratings or instructor certificates attached to this licence.
Revalidation of CPL(A)
The CPL(A) itself is valid permanently. It stays valid along with your Class 1 Medical certificate, your class ratings and type ratings. So if you keep valid following, your CPL(A) stays valid as well.
- Medical certificate (usually valid between 6 month up to 1 year)
- Class Rating (usually valid 1 year - e.g. MEP Land or 2 years for SEP Land)
- Type Rating (valid 1 year only)
- Instrument Rating (valid 1 year only)
There are two important information to keep in mind!
Once you obtain Commercial Pilot Licence you have to mandatorily hold Class 1 Medical Certificate same like other professional pilots do. It does not matter whether you are flying a small Cessna 152 or perhaps Boeing 747. You have to keep your Class 1 Medical valid all the time.
If you are a holder of an instrument rating, in order to keep either ATPL theory valid or IR theory valid you have to renew your Instrument Rating within the period of 7 years after last expiry date. So if it happens your Instrument Rating became expired by 31 JUL 2020 - not to loose the theory credit, you have to renew your instrument rating latest by 31 JUL 2027.
