Commercial Pilot Licence

The holder of a Commercial Pilot Licence must be at least 18 years old and hold a valid Category I medical.  This will include completing an electrocardiogram (ECG).  As a Commercial Pilot Licence holder, individuals will be legally able to work as a pilot, and as such will be able to fly multiple passengers even outside of Canada. Brampton Flight Center offers options to obtain additional ratings such as Multi and Single/Multi IFR.

A minimum of eighty hours of ground school is necessary for the Commercial Pilot Licence. Topics that are to be covered include Air Law, Navigation, Meteorology, and Aeronautics – General Knowledge.

The scheduling and length of training is based on availability and subject to change.

Program Requirements

• A minimum of two hundred hours of flight training must be obtained.
• Thirty-five hours must be dual after obtaining the Private Pilot Licence (PPL).
• Five hours must be dual night of which a minimum of two must be cross-country.
• Five hours additional cross-country.
• Minimum of twenty hours instrument post PPL (maximum of ten hours can be done in the simulator). A requirement of thirty hours solo after obtaining PPL.
• Twenty-five hours solo flight time.
• Five hours solo at night.
• Three hundred hours Nautical mile (NM) solo cross-country.
• For the three hundred NM cross country, the distance must be straight line, and a minimum of three airports other than the departure airport (CNC3) must be reached.
• Furthermore, a minimum of one hundred hours of total time must be as Pilot-in-Command (including PPL).