WHY WE ARE QUALIFIED TO TRAIN YOU
Anthelion’s instructors bring diverse aviation backgrounds including charter and corporate flying, aerial survey and photography work, flight instruction, and airline-pipeline programs. Leadership experience includes Chief Pilot and Chief Flight Instructor roles as well as airline captain.
The program emphasizes developing safety skills and professionalism to advance your flying career. Training incorporates commercial operational simulations to reflect real-world scenarios.
HOW WE WILL DESIGN YOUR COMMERCIAL PILOT LICENSE TRAINING
We customize instruction based on your individual flight experience and goals. Design considers safety practices, regulatory requirements, future aspirations (such as an instrument rating), and the practical test standards.
Students require 250 total flight hours under Part 61 to master commercial airplane flight competencies.
COMING SOON — PART 141 TRAINING: Once our Part 141 commercial syllabus is approved, qualifying students will be able to work toward this certificate with a structured, credit-bearing curriculum — the same approach that has helped our helicopter students train efficiently for 20 years. Until then, every Commercial Pilot – Airplane student trains under Part 61.
Beyond flying mechanics, training develops planning proficiency and decision-making abilities. This flight safety decision-making skill is possibly the most important thing you will learn, supporting safe professional airplane operation.
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250 hours total flight time as a pilot, including:
- 100 hours in powered aircraft, of which 50 hours must be in airplanes
- 100 hours pilot-in-command flight time, which includes 50 hours in airplanes and 50 hours of cross-country flight (at least 10 hours of which must be in airplanes)
- 10 hours of instrument training (5 of the 10 hours must be in a single-engine airplane)
- 10 hours of training in a complex airplane, a turbine-powered airplane, or a technically advanced airplane — built right in with our Cessna 172 TAA
- One 2-hour daytime cross-country flight of more than 100 nautical miles total distance
- One 2-hour nighttime cross-country flight of more than 100 nautical miles total distance
- 3 hours of flight training in a single-engine airplane in preparation for the practical test within the preceding 2 calendar months
- 10 hours of solo flight time in a single-engine airplane (or 10 hours performing pilot-in-command duties with an authorized instructor on board), including:
- One solo cross-country flight of not less than 300 nautical miles total distance, with landings at a minimum of three points, one leg of which is a straight-line distance of at least 250 nautical miles
- 5 hours of night VFR flight with 10 takeoffs and 10 landings to a full stop (each involving a flight in the traffic pattern) at an airport with an operating control tower
Up to 50 of these 250 hours can be credited from time in our new AATD flight simulator under 14 CFR § 61.129(i) — see our Flight Simulator page for details.