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Aviation licensing, Course 3: getting licensed

Getting licensed: training, examinations, medicals and language

By Aerospace Garage Desk · Practitioner · 45 minutes · 24 narrated pages · Updated October 2026

What you will be able to do

  • ✓ Set out the six steps from eligibility to issue, compare integrated and modular routes, and apply the pattern to engineers, controllers and cabin crew
  • ✓ Describe approved and declared training organisations for pilots, engineers and controllers, and how simulators are qualified
  • ✓ Explain who sets, runs and protects theory exams, and their pass marks and time limits
  • ✓ Explain skill tests, test standards, examiner oversight and what follows a failed or discontinued test
  • ✓ Explain medical classes, who issues certificates, validity periods and the holder's duty when fitness changes
  • ✓ Explain language levels and re-testing, how ratings and endorsements are recorded, and how a licence is issued and first used under supervision

Course content

Session 1 · The pathway to a licence

3.1

  1. Six steps to any licence · free preview
  2. Integrated or modular?
  3. The same pattern for engineers, controllers and cabin crew
  4. Worked example: planning the hours to a commercial licence
Session 2 · Training organisations and simulators

3.2

  1. Who may train pilots
  2. Training engineers and controllers
  3. Simulators and their qualification
  4. Worked example: three routes to a B1 licence
Session 3 · Knowledge examinations

3.3

  1. Who sets and runs the exams
  2. Pass marks and time limits
  3. Protecting exam integrity
  4. Worked example: counting attempts, sittings and months
Session 4 · Practical tests and examiners

3.4

  1. Skill tests and proficiency checks
  2. The standards behind the test
  3. Examiners, and when a test is failed
  4. Worked example: five skill test results
Session 5 · Medical certification

3.5

  1. Three classes of medical assessment
  2. Examiners, centres and validity
  3. When fitness changes
  4. Worked example: four pilots, four medical dates
Session 6 · Language proficiency, issue and first use

3.6

  1. The six language levels
  2. Re-testing, ratings and endorsements
  3. Application, issue and first use
  4. From the investigation file: a stolen identity in the airman records

Who this course is for

Upskill courses are for professional development and are not approved by any aviation authority. Learner Terms

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