How do they match: Commercial Pilots

  • Flight Instructor
  • Flight Operations Director
  • Flight Operator
  • Commercial Pilot Flight Instructor

  • Pilot and navigate the flight of fixed-wing aircraft on nonscheduled air carrier routes, or helicopters. Requires Commercial Pilot certificate. Includes charter pilots with similar certification, and air ambulance and air tour pilots. Excludes regional, national, and international airline pilots.

  • Check aircraft prior to flights to ensure that the engines, controls, instruments, and other systems are functioning properly.
  • Check the flight performance of new and experimental planes.
  • Choose routes, altitudes, and speeds that will provide the fastest, safest, and smoothest flights.
  • Conduct in-flight tests and evaluations at specified altitudes and in all types of weather to determine the receptivity and other characteristics of equipment and systems.
  • Coordinate flight activities with ground crews and air traffic control, and inform crew members of flight and test procedures.
  • File instrument flight plans with air traffic control so that flights can be coordinated with other air traffic.
  • Monitor engine operation, fuel consumption, and functioning of aircraft systems during flights.
  • Obtain and review data such as load weights, fuel supplies, weather conditions, and flight schedules to determine flight plans and identify needed changes.
  • Order changes in fuel supplies, loads, routes, or schedules to ensure safety of flights.
  • Plan flights according to government and company regulations, using aeronautical charts and navigation instruments.
  • Plan and formulate flight activities and test schedules and prepare flight evaluation reports.
  • Start engines, operate controls, and pilot airplanes to transport passengers, mail, or freight according to flight plans, regulations, and procedures.
  • Supervise other crew members.
  • Write specified information in flight records, such as flight times, altitudes flown, and fuel consumption.

  • Coordinate flight control or management activities.
  • Plan flight operations.