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Types of Licence

  • SPL (Student Pilot Licence): Permits you to take up flying lessons.
  • PPL (Private Pilot Licence): Permits you to fly on your own and carry non-paying passengers virtually anywhere in good weather.
  • RPL (Recreational Pilot Licence): Permits a pilot to fly within fifty nautical miles of the airport at which he or she received ground school and flight instruction.
  • CPL (Commercial Pilot Licence): Permits you to fly as pilot-in-command of a single pilot aircraft or as a co-pilot in a multi-crew aircraft.
  • ATPL (Airline Transport Pilot Licence): This is the highest level of aircraft pilot certification. Those certified as Airline Transport Pilot are authorized to act as pilot-in-command of an aircraft in air carrier service with a max gross weight over 12,500 pounds or 5,700 kg and/or over 9 passenger seats.