Are you looking to advance your career or for relaxing new hobby? You are at the right place. SKILLFLY offers many programs to meet your needs.
Sport Pilot
Interested in Flying as a hobby? The Sport rating is designed for someone who wants to fly for recreation in an airplane that qualifies as light sport. Sport pilots fly in daytime conditions during good weather and carry no more than 1 passenger. An aviation medical is not required.
Additionally, private and commercial pilots who have been away from aviation sometimes will return to aviation and fly under sport pilot rules.
Private Pilot
Fly for recreation or for personal business and travel. Private pilots begin with flying during day or night conditions in good weather conditions. They fly airplanes that will typically have between 2 and 6 seats.
Private pilots can add to their experience and skills by getting trained to fly in poor weather conditions. They can add to their skills retractable, high performance, multi engine, turbo prop, and jet powered airplanes as well.
Private pilots can not fly for compensation or for hire.
They are required to posses at least a 3rd class aviation medical certificate, or be properly qualified to fly under basic med.
Commercial
A commercial pilot rating is required for any type of flying where the pilot is being compensated. You must have at least 250 hours of flight time. Training for this rating allows a pilot to demonstrate a high degree of mastery of airmanship by demonstrating how the airplane responds during a specific set of complex maneuvers. It requires specific amount of training in cross country, night time, instrument, and complex (retractable) or TAA (technically advanced) airplanes. Pilots with the commercial rating can be either Single Engine, Multi-engine, or both.
Multi-Engine
A Multi-Engine rating allows a pilot to fly an airplane with more than one engine. This is an add-on rating for either Private or Commercial Pilots. The vast majority of airline and passenger carrying operations in this country (except for in Alaska) use multi-engine airplanes. For a commercial pilot with ambitions of carrying passengers for an airline or a charter company, a multi-engine rating is a must. Flying most multi-engine airplanes are pretty easy when things are working right, but training for this add on rating focuses on what a pilot must know when one of those ‘multi’ engines decides to take a break.
Instrument
A pilot may want to add the ability to fly in poor weather conditions. These conditions are what is called IFR conditions. That stands for Instrument Flight Rules. Typically conditions where a pilot doesn't have a 1000 foot ceiling or 3 miles of visibility to work with.
Instrument ratings can be added to the private and the commercial pilot certificates
““Let’s get one thing straight. There’s a big difference between a pilot and an aviator. One is a technician; the other is an artist in love with flight.”
