Cleared for Hire
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Cleared for Hire
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Summary
Your commercial pilot certificate, explained by someone who has sat in the right seat.
Ready to get paid to fly? Cleared for Hire is a warm, witty and thoroughly practical guide to earning your commercial pilot certificate, written by Evelyn Schmidt Van Dyck, a longtime flight instructor and former FAA Designated Pilot Examiner who has spent years in the right seat watching pilots show what they know. She explains what the regulations actually say, what the examiner is really looking for, and how to fly to commercial standards without losing your sense of humor.
The companion to Cleared for Takeoff and Cleared for the Approach, this book picks up where your private certificate and instrument rating left off and takes you all the way to the commercial checkride.
PART ONE: THE KNOWLEDGE TEST
What a commercial certificate does and doesn't let you do, in plain English: compensation, holding out, common carriage, Part 119 and the instrument limitation, plus the aerodynamics, complex-airplane systems, performance, weather, aeromedical factors and operating rules every professional should know cold. You'll also learn exactly how the 100-question commercial knowledge test works and how to prepare for it.
PART TWO: FLYING LIKE A PROFESSIONAL
Steep turns, steep spirals, chandelles, lazy eights, eights on pylons, precision landings and the power-off 180, slow flight and stalls, complex and technically advanced airplanes, the required cross-countries, and a clear plan for logging every hour the regulations require, honestly and efficiently.
PART THREE: THE CHECKRIDE
How to read the Airman Certification Standards like a map, gather every endorsement and document the examiner will ask for, handle an oral exam built around paying passengers, fly the practical test to standard, and decide what comes next, from flight instructing to Part 135 and the airlines.
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