There are severely different types of pilot certificates types. We will look at the 7 major ones, its stipulations, and how to acquire them.

Private pilots with one type rating can fly any aircraft with the same rating. For example, the Gulfstream G350, G450, G500, and G550 share the same G-V type rating.

Pilots of private and commercial planes may look more or less the same to outsiders, but the commonalities between the two are outnumbered by some key differences in the ways they learn and work.

In one whirlwind year, Pensacola Navy pilot Ryan Rankin managed to fly 52 different types of aircraft. The busy Pensacola Naval Air Station instructor pilot started 2017 with the daunting goal of ...

Compare that to almost every pilot in a U.S.-based airline, where the pilots have 1,500 flying hours or more before they are even considered as a first officer in similarly large jets for long ...

Regardless of where they end up in their careers, would-be pilots at NAS Corpus Christi have to fly one of these two planes. If and when they graduate, they choose a type of airframe -- strike ...

If that same pilot wanted to fly a helicopter under IFR, they would also have to get a rating for that type of aircraft. Always check to see if a given type of aircraft you wish to pilot requires ...