Section L (LIMA) - Commercial Pilot’s License with Instrument Rating

1. Requirements for issue of Licence – An applicant for Commercial

Pilot’s Licence (Aeroplanes) with Instrument Rating 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 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 and Instrument Rating
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
–

(i) not less than hundred hours of flight time as Pilot-in-Command out of
which not less than thirty hours flight time as Student Pilot-in-Command
which shall include not more than twenty hours of cross country flight
time and not more than ten hours circuits-landings with minimum ten
landings;
(ii) not less than fifteen hours time as Pilot-in-Command flight time
within a period of six months immediately preceding the date of
application;
(iii) not less than fifty hours 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;
 (iv) not less than fifty hours of instrument time of which not more than
twenty hours may be on an approved simulator, out of which minimum
of five hours of instrument time shall have been completed within a
period of six months immediately preceding the date of application for
the Instrument Rating; and
(v) not less tha five hours 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 preceding 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 airplane shall be reduced to hundred
hours.

Note- The student-pilot-in- command flight time shall not be logged by instructor in his
own log book. Student log book shall indicate student pilot-incommand flight time in
remarks column as SPIC with the name of the instructor.

(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 –

(i) general flying test by day;

(ii) general flying test by night;
(iii) 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;
(iv) 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; and
(v) ability to fly an aeroplane is respect of which Instrument Rating is desired,
solely with the aid of instruments by undergoing an instrument flying test within
a period of six months immediately preceding the date of application for the
rating. The flying test shall be carried out in accordance with the syllabus
 prescribed by the Director-General. The Director-General may, however, allow
such tests or part thereof to be carried out on an approved simulator for the
type of aircraft.
2. Validity – The period of validity shall commence from the date of issue or renewal of
the licence. The licence shall be valid for a period specified in Rule 39C subject to
compliance with renewal requirements as stipulated in para 3 hereinafter.

3. Renewal – The licence may be renewed on receipt of satisfactory evidence of the

applicant.

(a) having undergone a medical examination in accordance with para 1(c) above

(b) having satisfactorily completed not less than ten hours of flight time as Pilot-in-
Command(Fifty percent of flight time as Co-Pilot may be counted towards the
requirement of flight time as Pilot-in-Command) within a period of six months
immediately preceding the date of application for renewal, or in lieu thereof, having
satisfactorily completed the general flying test by day and night as laid down in clause
(h) of paragraph 1 within the same period; and

(c) having a current Flight Radio Telephone Operator’s Licence for operation of
radio telephone apparatus on board an aircraft, issued by the Director-General.

4. Rating – (a) The licence shall indicate the types of aeroplane the holder is entitled to
fly.

(b) Open Rating - An open rating for all single piston engine type of aeroplanes having
an all-up-weight not exceeding one thousand five hundered Kgs. may also be granted if
he has completed not less than one thousand hours of flight time on such types
of aeroplanes including not less than five hundred hours as Pilot-in-Command and has
at least four different types of aircraft entered in the aircraft rating of his licence:

Provided that the privileges of the open rating shall be exercised only after
having undergone a ground and flight familiarization with a flight Instructor or an
approved Examiner and a certificate to this effect shall be recorded by the Examiner in
the pilot’s log book, before the pilot is released to exercise the privileges of open rating
on that type of aircraft.

(c) Instructor’s Rating – Instructor’s Rating entitles the holder to impart flying
instructions. The privileges and conditions for the issue of these ratings are laid down in
Sections Q & R.

(d) Instrument Rating- No separate Instrument Rating is provided in the licence. The
privileges of instrument rating are included in the privileges of this licence provided that
the instrument rating flying tests have been carried out as per the conditions laid down
by the Director-General. Conditions for validity and renewal of instrument rating shall be
as are laid down in Section O of this Schedule.
5. Extension of Aircraft Rating— For extension of aircraft rating to include an
additional type of aeroplane, an applicant shall have passed a written examination in
Aircraft and Engines as mentioned in clause (d) of paragraph 1 and shall have acquired,
under appropriate supervision, experience in flying the aircraft of such type or on
approved flight simulator in accordance with the syllabus prescribed by the Director-
General followed by skill test as laid down by the Director-General.

5A. Proficiency Check.-

(a) In order to act as a co-pilot of transport aeroplanes having an all-up-weight

exceeding five thousand seven hundred kilograms, the licenceholder shall be required
to undergo an appropriate proficiency check as specified by the Director-General, in
respect of the type of aircraft to be flown.

(b) The proficiency check carried out as per para (a) shall be valid for a period of six
months from the date of the check and shall be renewed for a further period of six
months at a time.

(c) In the case of renewal, the period of validity shall commence from the date of expiry
of the previous validity provided that the check has been carried out within two months
preceding the date of expiry.

6. Privileges –Subject to the validity of endorsements and ratings in the licence and
compliance with the relevant provisions of Rule 39B, Rule 39C and Rule 42 of the
Aircraft Rules, 1937, the privileges of the holder of a Commercial
Pilot’s Licence (Aeroplanes) shall be :-

(a) to exercise all the privileges of Private Pilot’s Licence (Aeroplanes);

(b) to act as Pilot-in-Command of any aeroplane having an all-upweight 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:

(c) 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 demonstrated his company in accordance with
para 1(h) (v).