The minimum hours for this license is 67 hours of flight training. Under ideal conditions, this flight experience can be obtained by the end of the student's second year at Tech.  This is the point where most students complete part of their flight training during the summer quarter when flight weather is optimum. The flight experience is accumulated primarily in the Cessna 152 and 172.  15 hours of the commercial course is accomplished in an airplane categorized as a complex airplane  --  meaning an airplane with retractable landing gear/flaps, and controllable pitch propeller such as the Cessna RG. A Class II medical certificate is required for flight commercial operations (valid for one year).

Commercial Rating Requirements

• Completion of PA 206, 207, 210, 211, and 212
• 2nd Class Medical Certificate
• Advanced Aviation Weather 
• Commercial Ground School I and II
• Commercial Flight I, II, and III
• Pass FAA Written Exam with Minimum Score of 70%
• Pass Flight Check
• Oral Exam and Flight Check

Minumum Flight Times

Dual Flight            23  Hours
Solo Flight            42  Hours
Simulator Flight       2   Hours
Oral Instruction     18.7  Hours