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Types of Pilot Licenses Explained (Student, Recreational, Private, Commercial, ATP, and more)

Pilot Institute

APRIL 22, 2025

You may pilot aircraft with a Maximum Takeoff Weight (MTOW) of 1320 pounds, carry no more than one passenger, and fly only during the daytime up to 10,000 feet MSL (or 2,000 AGL). Flight control of the aircraft depends on the wings ability to flexibly deform rather than the use of control surfaces.

Pilot

Pilot Weight-Shift-Control Lift Airplanes

There’s Something Essential in the Bank

Flying Magazine

MAY 1, 2024

The ability to bank is essential to controlled flight. Otto Lilienthal did it by shifting his weight, but for the much larger Wright Flyer the solution was to make one wing produce more lift than the other by twisting them in opposite directions. But it cannot have been quite so obvious then. The T-38 scores around 0.26.

Aileron

Aileron Airfoil Weight-Shift-Control Airplanes

Aviator Connection

Types of Pilot Licenses Explained (Student, Recreational, Private, Commercial, ATP, and more)

There’s Something Essential in the Bank

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