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Airline Transport Pilot Licence

The Airline Transport Pilot Certificate (ATPC), or Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) certificate, is the highest level of pilot certification that allows pilots to serve as pilot-in-command of commercial flights. To obtain an ATP certificate, pilots must be at least 23 years old and have a minimum of 1,500 hours of flight experience, or meet alternative eligibility requirements related to military service or an aviation-related university degree. The ATP certification involves extensive testing on subjects like regulations, aircraft systems, performance, navigation, meteorology and human factors.

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Airline Transport Pilot Licence

The Airline Transport Pilot Certificate (ATPC), or Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) certificate, is the highest level of pilot certification that allows pilots to serve as pilot-in-command of commercial flights. To obtain an ATP certificate, pilots must be at least 23 years old and have a minimum of 1,500 hours of flight experience, or meet alternative eligibility requirements related to military service or an aviation-related university degree. The ATP certification involves extensive testing on subjects like regulations, aircraft systems, performance, navigation, meteorology and human factors.

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AirlineTransportPilotLicence

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TheAirTransportPilotCertification(ATPC),orintheUnitedStatesofAmerica,anAirlineTransportPilot
(ATP)certificateisthehighestlevelofaircraftpilotcertificate.ThosecertifiedasAirlineTransportPilots
(unconditional)areauthorizedtoactaspilotincommandonscheduledaircarrier'saircraftunderCFR14Part121.
IntheUK,pilotsmustholdanATPbeforetheycanbePilotInCommandonanaircraftwith9ormorepassenger
seats.[1]
AnypilotoperatinganaircraftforpaymuststartbyobtainingaCommercialpilotcertificate(CPC).Airline
TransportPilotcertificationsdonothavespecialendorsements,suchasInstrumentorComplexaircraftratings,as
AirlineTransportPilotsmustalreadypossessknowledgeandtrainingintheseareas.However,aircraftheavierthan
12,500lbs.stillrequirepilotstohavea"typerating"(specifictothemakeandmodelofaircraft)certification.
TheoreticalsubjectsincludedintheexaminationofATPLapplicantsare:[2]
Airlaw
Aircraftgeneralknowledge
Flightplanningandmonitoring
Humanperformanceandlimitations
Meteorology
Operationalprocedures
Principlesofflight
Communications(IFR&VFR)
Performance
Generalnavigation
Radionavigation
Instrumentation
Massandbalance

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Eligibility
Seealso
Externallinks
References

Eligibility
TobeeligibletotaketheFederalAviationAdministration's(FAA)ATPpracticaltest,thecandidatemusthaveat
least1500hoursofexperienceinaircraftandbeatleast23yearsold.[3]RestrictedLicenses(whichallowthe
holdertoperformonlysecondincommandduties)maybegrantedtoindividualsthatmeetoneofthefollowing
criteria:
Militarypilotswhoare21yearsorolderwith750hourstotaltime.
GraduateswithafouryeardegreeinaviationfromapprovedUniversitiessuchastheUniversityofNorth
Dakota,MiddleTennesseeStateUniversity,PurdueUniversity,EasternKentuckyUniversity,LeTourneau
University,CentralWashingtonUniversity,FloridaInstituteofTechnology,WestminsterCollege,Western

MichiganUniversity,EmbryRiddleAeronauticalUniversity,ArizonaStateUniversityortheUniversityof
CentralMissourithathave1000hoursoftotalflighttimeandare21yearsorolder.[4]
Graduateswithatwoyeardegreeinaviation,whohave1250hoursandare21yearsorolder.
Pilotswith1500hourswhoare21yearsorolder.
Thepilotcanremovetherestrictiononcetheyhaveachievedthenormalprerequisites.[5]

Seealso
Privatepilotlicence
Commercialpilotlicence
PilotcertificationintheUnitedStates
AirlineTransportPilotlicenseinCanada
PilotlicensingintheUnitedKingdom

Externallinks
AirTransportPilotandAircraftTypeRatingPracticalTestStandardsforAirplane(http://www.faa.gov/traini
ng_testing/testing/test_standards/media/faas80815f.pdf).FAA,August2006.
FAAdefinitionsofUScivilairmentypes(http://api.hq.faa.gov/sth/chp7txt.htm)

References
1."TheEASAATPL".Speedbird103.com.Retrieved4April2015.
2.[1](http://www.faa.gov/training_testing/testing/test_guides/media/FAAG80821J.pdf)
3."FAAAirmanKnowledgeTesting"(PDF).FederalAviationAdministration.FederalAviationAdministration.February
2012.RetrievedSeptember27,2013.
4.[2](http://www.faa.gov/pilots/training/atp/media/Institutional_Authority_List.pdf)
5.http://www.boldmethod.com/blog/2013/08/1500hourrulerestrictedatp/

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