In the air
Commercial Pilot
Commercial pilot holder (CPL/A : Commercial Pilot Licence/Aeroplane) are authorized on VFR single-pilot commercial flight. This category of flight can’t be above 13.000ft or 4000meters.
The following options are the different types of commercial pilot careers:
Some of the following career path require a specific rating like flight instructor, low altitude evolution, knowledge of the chemicals usage, seaplane, mountains, technical knowledge of the ground and/or infrastructure under observation…
- Surveillance and equipment testing Pipeline patrols, forest fire watch, powerline patrol…
- Crop duster operation Locus control, crop treatment…
- Aerial photography Optimize the position of the plane for a target point to be seen by the photographer
- Parachutists drop
- Flight instructor in a flight school, in a factory…
- Corporate aviation passengers or cargo transport for business or corporation
- Charter operation for-hire operation, there is no set schedule, and you could potentially fly to many different types of destinations, different than airline operations
- Discovery flights for those who want to discover flying and fly the aircraft themself
- Tour guide Fly over landmarks and area of interest to provide passengers a sky-high view.
- Ferry operations Delivering an aircraft to a person or a company
- Law enforcement National air police surveillance
- Air show stunt
- Media company pilots Flying for news organizations
- Banner towing
- Contract work charter, corporate, or any work that may come up on a need-for-need basis
- Test pilots Usually with a military or engineering background testing that new aircraft are safe to fly
- Equipment testing Pipeline patrols and powerline patrol pilots spend many hours flying over our nation’s infrastructure looking for faults
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