Commercial Pilot Licence With Instrument Rating For Helicopters

Flying training

Requirement Required number of hours Crediting for previous experience
Total flying training at least 195 hours including all progress tests If you hold a valid ICAO compliant PPL(H), 50% of the hours flown can be credited, up to a maximum of 40 hours, of which up to 20 hours can be dual instruction, or 50 hours, of which up to 25 hours may be dual instruction, if you have a helicopter night rating

The total flying training requirement (above) must include the following components:

  • Dual instruction
    • Visual instruction
    • Instrument instruction
    • MCC
  • PIC
  • Cross-country flying
  • Night flying
  • Instrument time

Exact hour requirements for each of these components are set out below.

Dual instruction requirements

You will need to complete a total of 140 hours dual visual instruction, including the following components:

Dual instruction - visual instruction

75 hours of the total dual instruction requirement must be visual instruction, which may include one of the four options in below:

Simulator/aircraft category Hours allowed
Helicopter FFS, level C/D 30
FTD 2, 3 25
FNPT II/III 20
Aeroplane or touring motor glider (TMG) 20
  • 50 hours instrument instruction may include:

(i) up to 20 hours in a helicopter FFS or FTD 2,3 or FNPT II/III;or(ii) 10 hours in at least a helicopter FNPT 1 or an aeroplane;

  • 15 hours MCC, for which a helicopter FFS or helicopter FTD 2,3(MCC) or FNPT II/III(MCC) may be used.

If the helicopter used for the flying training is of a different type from the helicopter FFS used for the visual training, the maximum credit shall be limited to that allocated for the helicopter FNPT II/III;

  • 55 hours as PIC, of which 40 hours may be as SPIC. At least 14 hours solo day and 1 hour solo night shall be made;
  • 50 hours of cross-country flight, including at least 10 hours of cross- country flight as SPIC including a VFR cross-country flight of at least 185 km (100 NM) in the course of which landings at two different aerodromes from the aerodrome of departure shall be made;
  • 5 hours flight time in helicopters shall be completed at night comprising 3 hours of dual instruction including at least 1 hour of cross-country navigation and 5 solo night circuits. Each circuit shall include a take-off and a landing;
  • 50 hours of dual instrument time comprising:

(i) 10 hours basic instrument instruction time;and(ii) 40 hours IR Training, which shall include at least 10 hours in a multi- engine IFR-certificated helicopter

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