As per DGCA
SPL
Student Pilot’s Licence is issued for Aeroplanes, Helicopters or Gliders.
1. Requirements for issue of licence —
(a) Age— The applicant should be minimum of 16 years of age on the date of application.
(b) Educational Qualification— He should have passed Class Ten or its equivalent examination from a recognised Board.
(c) Medical fitness — He should produce on a prescribed proforma a certificate of physical fitness from an approved medical practitioner after
undergoing a medical examination as per the requirements notified by the Director-General.
(d) Knowledge — He should pass oral examination in Air Regulations, Air Navigation, Aviation Meteorology and Aircraft and Engines, unless he
previously held a pilot’s licence of a higher category.
2. Validity — The period of validity commences from the date of issue or renewal of the licence. For Student Pilot’s Licence (aeroplanes or helicopters
or microlight aircraft or gliders or balloons) the validity if for 5 years.
Validity of medical fitness assessment 24 months.
3. Renewal— The licence has to be renewed before the validity gets expired.
4. Aircraft Rating— The licence should indicate the class and the types of aeroplanes or
helicopters or gliders the holder is entitled to fly. Only those types of aircraft may be entered in
the licence in respect of which the candidate has passed the examination in Aircraft and Engines.
5. Privileges- The privileges of the holder of a Student Pilot’s Licence should be to fly within Indian territory only,
as Pilot-in-Command of any aeroplane, helicopter or glider entered in the aircraft rating of his licence :
Provided that :-(a) he should fly at all times under the authority and supervision of a Flight Instructor or an Approved Examiner;
(b) he should fly under Visual Flight Rules only ;
(c) he should not carry passengers, animals and goods or fly for hire, reward or remuneration of any kind;
(d) he should not undertake cross-country flights unless he has a minimum of ten hours of solo flight time and has passed the examinations
in Air Navigation and Aviation Meteorology.
PPL
Private Pilot’s Licence (aeroplanes)
1. Requirements —
(a) Age - He should not be less than 17 years of age on the date of application.
(b) Educational Qualification— He should have passed Class Ten or equivalent Examination from a recognised Board.
(c) Medical Fitness— He should produce on a prescribed proforma, a certificate of physical fitness from an approved medical practitioner after
undergoing a medical examination.
(d) Knowledge— He should pass a written examination in Air Regulations, Air Navigation, Aviation Meteorology and Aircraft and Engines
as per the syllabus prescribed by the Director-General.
An applicant in possession of a valid Private Pilot’s Licence (Helicopters) or a Commercial/Airline Transport Pilot’s Licence (Helicopters)
should pass an examination in Aircraft and Engines only.
(e) Experience— He should produce evidence of having satisfactorily completed as a pilot of an aeroplane for minimum 40 hours of flight time
which should include—
(i) minimum 20 hours of solo flight time;
(ii) minimum 5 hours of cross-country flight time as the sole occupant of an aeroplane including a flight of minimum 150 nautical miles in the course of
which full stop landings at two different aerodromes should have been made;
(iii) minimum 10 hours of solo flight time completed within a period of 12 months immediately preceding the date of application for the issue of licence;
(f) Skill— He should have perform as a Pilot-incommand or a Co-pilot of an aeroplane, to the satisfaction of an Examiner, on the type of
aeroplane to which the application for the licence relates, within a period of 6 months immediately preceding the date of application.
2. Validity— The period of validity commences from the date of issue or renewal of the licence. For Private Pilot’s Licence the validity is for 10 years.
Validity of medical fitness assessment 24 months.
3. Renewal— The licence may be renewed on receipt of satisfactory evidence of the applicant —
(a) having undergone a medical examination;
(b) having satisfactorily minimum 5 hours of flight time as Pilot-in-command of an aeroplane within a period of 12 months immediately
4. Ratings—
(a) Aircraft Rating— The licence should indicate the class and the types of aeroplanes the holder is entitled to fly.
An open rating for all single piston engine types of aeroplanes having an all-up weight not exceeding 1500 Kgs. may also be granted if he has
completed minimum 250 hours as Pilot-in-command and has at least four different types of aeroplanes entered in the aircraft rating of his licence :
Provided that the privileges of the open rating should be exercised only after having undergone a ground and flight familiarisation with a Flight
Instructor for the type of aircraft and a certificate should be recorded by the Flight Instructor/Examiner in the Pilot’s Log book.
(b) Night Rating— Night Rating entitles the holder of the licence to carry passengers at night.
Conditions for the issue of this rating are :-
(i) he must have completed minimum 50 hours of flight time as Pilot-in-command and as sole manipulator of the controls including minimum 5 hours
by night, which must include a minimum of 5 take-offs and 5 landings.
(ii) he must have completed a dual cross-country flight by night of at least 100 nautical miles before he can be permitted to undertake sole
cross-country flights by night, and
(iii) he must have completed minimum 5 hours of dual instructions in instrument flying which may include not less than two and a half hours
on an approved synthetic flight trainer.
(c) Instrument Rating— Instrument rating entitles the holder of the licence to fly under the Instrument Flight Rules. The standard of medical fitness
and conditions for issue of the rating.
5. Extension of Aircraft Rating— For extension of Aircraft Rating to include an additional type of aeroplane, an applicant should be required to
produce evidence of —
(a) having passed written examination in Aircraft and Engines;
(b) having undergone adequate dual instructions and solo flying on the type;
(c) having satisfactorily completed the flight test on the type within a period of 6 months immediately preceding date of application for
the extension of Aircraft Rating.
6. Privileges— The privileges of the holder of a Private Pilot’s Licence should be to act as Pilot-on-command or as Co-pilot of any aeroplane which
is entered in the Aircraft Rating of his licence and carry passengers therein :
Provided that —
(i) no flight is undertaken for hire or remuneration of any kind;
(ii) the passengers are carried by night only when the holder of licence has a valid night rating;
(iii) no flight should be undertaken under the Instrument Flight Rules without having a valid Instrument Rating.
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