PRIVATE PILOT-GLIDER
After solo, student pilots may qualify as a Private Pilot-Glider provided they:
- Are at least 16 years of age; and
- Have logged at least 10 hours of flight time in a glider and that flight time must include at least 20 total glider flights, and
- Have 2 hours of solo flight time in a glider, and
- Have passed the FAA written examination; and
- Have passed the flight exam PE-GL with a FAA Examiner.
COMMERCIAL PILOT-GLIDER
Commercial Pilots-Glider must…
- Be at least 18-years of age
- Pass a written FAA examination
- Hold a Private Pilot license with…
- 25 hours of flight time in gliders and
- 100 glider flights as pilot-in-command, or a total of 200 hours of flight time in heavier-than-air aircraft including 20 glider flights as pilot-in-command, 3 hours or ten flights training in a glider, and five solo flights in a glider.
- Have passed the flight exam CE-GL with a FAA Examiner.
