TAS Inc. Flight Instruction - Air Taxi

Advanced Training

After you have your private pilot's license, you are free to fly wherever and whenever you wish.
However, there are a few restrictions on the private license. Visual flight rules (VFR) will only permit you to fly when the weather conditions allow for outside visual reference. Low clouds or low visibility will keep you on the ground until you receive your Instrument Rating. Also with only your private pilot's license, you may not fly for hire. To receive compensation for flying, you will need to obtain your Commercial Certificate.

Instrument Rating

Your instrument rating adds significantly more flexibility to your flying pursuits. Without this rating, you must be very careful planning your flying trips. It is not uncommon to reach your destination, have adverse weather move in, and become trapped on the ground with no way to return home. Your instrument rating allows you to fly under Instrument flight rules (IFR), when weather conditions would otherwise keep you on the ground. At TAS, we encourage pilots to receive instrument training, even if they do not plan on pursuing the complete rating. the instrument training makes you a safer, better prepared pilot!

A student prepares for her Instrument Rating training.

Your instrument training requires 40 hours of simulated or actual instrument flight conditions and can be finished in as little as a week, or as long as a few years. We recommend the purchase of our interactive CD Rom ground school kit to prepare you for the written exam. Once you have some ground knowledge, then we recommend you begin your flight training with one of our Certified Flight Instrument Instructors. The cost for an instrument rating is around $4,500.00, but can become more expensive if you lengthen the time period of your training.

Instrument Rating Requirements FAR 61.65

Pilot must have at least 50 hours cross-country time logged (at least 50 NM) and a total of 40 hours of actual or simulated instrument time to include:

at least 15 hours of instrument flight training from an instructor (dual)
at least 3 hours in preparation for, and within 60 days of the practical test
at least one cross-country under IFR (simulated or actual) that consists of:
- a distance of at least 250 NM
- an instrument approach at each airport
- three different kinds of approaches

Commercial License and Certified Flight Instructor's Rating

If you are interested in receiving your commercial license and/or flight instructor's rating, you may do so through TAS Inc. We have produced several commercial pilots and instructors each year and are looking for those home grown to possibly instruct here at TAS Inc.

Commercial Pilot Aeronautical Experience Requirements FAR 61.129

Person must have at least 250 hours logged flight time that includes:

100 hours in powered aircraft
100 hours PIC time including:
- 50 hours in airplanes
- 50 hours cross-country flight
20 hours of training including:
- 10 hours instrument training
- 10 hours in a complex aircraft (retractable landing gear, flaps and a controllable pitch propeller)
- one cross-country of at least 2 hours in day VFR consisting of a total straight line distance of more than 100 NM from original point
- one cross-country flight of at least 2 hours in night VFR consisting of a total straight line distance of more than 100 NM
- 3 hours in preparation and within 60 days of the practical test
10 hours solo flight including:

one cross-country flight not less than 300 NM with three landings and one straight line distance of at least 250 NM from the original departure point.
5 hours night VFR with 10 takeoffs/landings at an airport with an operating control tower

Contact Allison Laird, Manager, at 610-696-8664 for more information, or to schedule a flight