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Airline Transport Pilot License – ATPL
This is the highest license you can get as a pilot and is required to act as the pilot in command (PIC) [captain] of a multi crew aircraft. Both in Europe and United States you have to be at least 23 years of age and have at least 1,500 hours of total flight time before obtaining an ATPL.
In the United States (FAA) it is common to fly as a commercial pilot (flight instructor, first officer, etc.) until you have the needed hours for then to do the written exam followed by a check ride (flight exam). As airlines usually hire you for one day to be a captain with the company some require you hold the ATPL to get a job even though you fly as a first officer. This of course varies depending on the market situation.
In Europe (JAA) most flight students do all the theory right away and get a “frozen” ATPL. The final exam consists of 14 topics and takes from six months to a year to get through. As everything is taken as one exam it is very common to fail one or two topics. You then redo the topics failed.
A “frozen” ATPL just indicate you have done all the theory but don’t have the required flight experience to get a full ATPL. Ones the company upgrade you to captain the ATPL is issued combined with the pilot in command type rating for the aircraft to be flow.
4/30/2004
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