After the completion of your Private Pilot License, the next step in your pilot training is to obtain a night rating.
What is Night Rating?
The Night Rating allows the pilot to fly safely at night in good visual weather conditions and have the benefit of being less restricted when planning and executing a particular flight. For aviation purposes, night is defined as 15 minutes after sunset and 15 minutes before sunrise.
Night Rating Requirements
- Valid Private Pilot License
- Five take offs and landings by night
- Ten hours of instrument instruction of which
- Not more than five hours are allowed to be accumulated on a flight simulator
- Night cross country of at least 150mm and including two full stop landings at different aerodromes and a controlled airport
- You need to hold a valid PPL which means to do a Night Rating you must be at least 17 years old