Professional Pilot Roadmap
Frozen ATPL Roadmap

How to become an airline pilot?

To find and understand the Professional Pilot training path might be confusing and hard to understand. We have created this interactive Frozen ATPL roadmap to help you understand what needs to be done to become an EASA professional pilot in Europe.

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1 year

VFR

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00
Medical certificate
Medical

Medical certificate is something you should start your journey towards Frozen ATPL. To become professional pilot you need to be a holder of so-called Class 1 Medical Certificate.

2 days
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01
Private Pilot - PPL(A)
PPL

Becoming a Private Pilot is a fist step on your long journey towards the professional pilot career. Your PPL(A) has infinite validity. Once obtained you will be allowed to collect additional ratings required towards Frozen ATPL.

45:00 hours
min 40 hrs
max 5 hrs
3 months
Skill test
01:30 hrs
CAA THEORY
9 subjects
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02A
Timebuilding
Timebuilding

To progress your Frozen ATPL trianing you need an experience. Timebuilding is simply flying and gaining flying experience.

70 hours (PIC Cross country)
3 months
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02B
VFR Night
Night Rating
5 hours
04:10
00:50
2 days
More info
1 year

ATPL THEORY

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02C
ATPL Theory
Written ATPL exam

ATPL Theory is purely theoretical knowledge instruction ground school training course. For many people nightmare, however it is necessary to progess your professional pilot training further. 

650 hrs
7 months
CAA THEORY
13 subjects
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3 months

IFR

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OR
Modular IR-SE
03A
IR(A)/SE
Single Engine

An Instrument Rating Modular Single Engine (often abbreviated IR SE) is the rating that allows a pilot to fly under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) in a single-engine aircraft, using only the aircraft’s instruments for navigation and control, rather than relying on outside visual references.

50 hrs
35 hrs
15 hrs
1 month
Skill test
01:00 HRS
CAA THEORY
ATPL credit
More info
03B
MEP(land)
Multi-Engine rating

The Multi-Engine Piston (Land) Class Rating under EASA allows a pilot to act as pilot-in-command (PIC) or co-pilot of multi-engine piston land aircraft. This is a class rating, not a type rating, meaning it applies to a group of similar aircraft rather than a specific model.

7 hrs
6 hrs
1 WEEK
Skill test
01:00 hrs
More info
03C
IR(A)/ME
IR Multi-engine extension

An EASA IR-SE → IR-ME extension means upgrading your Instrument Rating (IR) from single-engine aeroplanes (SE) to multi-engine aeroplanes (ME).

2 HRS
3 HRS
2 DAYS
Skill test
01:00
Viac info
OR
Modular IR-ME
03B
MEP(land)
Multi-Engine rating

The Multi-Engine Piston (Land) Class Rating under EASA allows a pilot to act as pilot-in-command (PIC) or co-pilot of multi-engine piston land aircraft. This is a class rating, not a type rating, meaning it applies to a group of similar aircraft rather than a specific model.

7 HRS
6 HRS
1 WEEK
Skill test
01:00 HRS
Viac info
03C
IR(A)/ME
Multi Engine

The Instrument Rating (IR) allows you to fly under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR), including in IMC (Instrument Meteorological Conditions). When combined with a Multi-Engine (ME) class rating, it qualifies you to operate multi-engine aircraft in IFR conditions.

15:00 HRS
40:00 HRS
1 MONTH
Skill test
01:00 HR
Viac info
OR
CB-IR ME
01
Medical certificate 1
CAA EXAM

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650 hrs
7 months
Skill test
7 months
CAA THEORY
100 HRS
Viac info
01
Medical certificate 1
CAA EXAM

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650 hrs
7 months
Skill test
7 months
CAA THEORY
100 HRS
Viac info
OR
CB-IR SE
01
Medical certificate 1
CAA EXAM

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650 hrs
7 months
Skill test
7 months
CAA THEORY
100 HRS
Viac info
01
Medical certificate 1
CAA EXAM

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650 hrs
7 months
Skill test
7 months
CAA THEORY
100 HRS
Viac info
01
Medical certificate 1
CAA EXAM

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650 hrs
7 months
Skill test
7 months
CAA THEORY
100 HRS
Viac info
2 weeks

CPL

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04A
CPL(A) Training
CPL(A) Modular flight training

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650 hrs
7 months
Skill test
7 months
CAA THEORY
100 hrs
More info
04B
A-UPRT
Advanced UPRT training

Advanced Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (UPRT) is a specialized aviation training program that prepares pilots to prevent, recognize, and recover from aircraft upsets — unintentional departures from normal flight attitudes that could lead to loss of control in-flight (LOC-I), one of the leading causes of fatal aviation accidents.

650 hrs
7 months
Skill test
7 months
CAA THEORY
100 hrs
More info
3 weeks

MCC

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3 months

JOB APPLICATION

Roadmap

01
CPL(A)
CAA EXAM

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650 hrs
7 months
Skill test
7 months
CAA THEORY
100 HRS
Viac info
07
ATPL(A)
Airline Captain

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650 hrs
7 months
Skill test
7 months
CAA THEORY
100 HRS
Viac info