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Career Type Ratings and Training

Type ratings control which aircraft families your Career pilot can fly. In Career Mode, you do not automatically get access to every aircraft. Your airline, contract, training state, and type ratings decide what you can dispatch.

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What a type rating means

A type rating is Career permission to fly an aircraft family. Examples:

• A320 family.
• 737 family.
• 777 family.
• 787 family.

The exact family names depend on FlyHub’s aircraft data.

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Why type ratings matter

Type ratings affect:

• Which jobs you can accept.
• Which airline fleets are useful to you.
• Which Dispatch routes are available.
• Which aircraft appear in training.
• Which aircraft can be assigned in Career My Flights.
• Which future opportunities FlyHub can offer you.

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Starter training

When you begin Career Mode, your first airline can require starter training. The difficulty changes the training requirement: If you pass, you earn the type rating and move into normal employment. If you fail, FlyHub can route you into a recovery path depending on your Career state.

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Market training

Some Job Market offers require training before employment. The offer and contract show:

• Aircraft family.
• Required training flights.
• Minimum score average.
• Pilot cost share.
• Training pay rate.
• Base and airline.

Normal market training can pay less than full employment while you complete the program.

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Optional internal type-rating requests

Your current airline can sponsor another type rating, but the path is manual and optional. It is not a random monthly offer. Your first request becomes available after 100 hours with your current airline. After each internal rating is completed, the next request becomes available after 100 more hours from the hours recorded at completion. The milestone gives you one request. It does not create a bank of requests. If you reach 200 hours before using the first request, you still have one request available, not two. Waiting never creates extra requests.

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When the request is available

Open Career > My Company and look in Aircraft access. The qualification panel can be used when:

• You have reached the next 100-hour target with your current airline.
• Your airline operates an aircraft family you do not already hold.
• You do not have another internal request, approved training offer, or type-rating program in progress.

Tenure, recent performance, employer standing, and seniority help the airline prioritize requests when several pilots want the same family. They are shown as career context, not as a hidden random trigger.

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How to request a rating

1. Open Career > My Company.
2. Find Aircraft access and the Next type rating panel.
3. When the panel says Ready to request, select Request a type rating.
4. Choose one aircraft family that you want to pursue.
5. Select Send request.

The airline reviews the request within 24 hours. If the available sponsored slots are full or the request needs another review, it stays active and is checked again within 24 hours. You can see the current status in My Company and in Career notifications. Possible statuses include:

• Ready to request — you can choose a family and send the request.
• Request under review — the airline is processing it.
• Waiting for a fleet opening — the request remains active for another review.
• Training offer ready — the airline approved it; open the offer to begin.
• Training in progress — finish the program before requesting another rating.

Approved internal training is fully company-paid. You keep your current salary and seniority, and you do not pay a pilot type-rating share. External market training can still require you to pay the pilot share shown in its offer.

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Type-rating cost

Career type-rating prices depend on the aircraft family: The exact price shown in the offer is the price that applies. If FlyHub adds a new aircraft family before it receives a reviewed price, it temporarily uses the $15,000 standard-family price. Aircraft added to an existing family inherit that family’s price. External market training normally requires you to pay the displayed type-rating price. Internal type training with your current airline is company-paid. Before accepting training, check:

• Total rating cost.
• Whether the training is external or company-paid.
• Pilot share.
• Your balance.
• Loan availability.
• Training pay.
• Required performance average.

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During training

Training changes what Dispatch shows. While you are training on a type, Dispatch focuses on that training family. Even if you already have other type ratings, FlyHub can limit visible dispatch work until the training program is complete. This keeps the training contract clean and prevents unrelated line work from interfering.

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Passing training

To pass training:

1. Sign the training contract.
2. Complete the required training flights.
3. Keep the average score above the contract minimum.
4. Wait for FlyHub to process the training result.
5. Sign the employment or updated contract if required.

After passing, the type rating appears in your Career profile and the related aircraft family can become available when your airline fleet supports it.

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Failing training

Failing training can have consequences. Depending on the training path, you can:

• Lose the offer.
• Return to a previous line contract.
• Become unemployed.
• Receive a recovery offer.
• Need to find another job path through Job Market.

Always read the contract before starting training. The contract tells you the score requirement and what you are agreeing to.

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Recurrent training and currency

A purchased rating stays current when you fly that aircraft family at least once every 90 days. If a rating expires, it is not removed. You can restore it by flying the family again or by completing simulator recurrency. Simulator recurrency costs 10% of each expired self-funded rating’s price. One session restores all expired ratings and the total session fee is capped at $2,500. Retraining for aircraft families operated by your current airline is free. Line checks and medical checks are separate from normal type-rating training. If you miss required checks or fail a line check, you can be grounded until the issue is fixed. For compliance rules, see Career Compliance.

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Common mistakes

• Accepting external training without checking the displayed price.
• Forgetting that training can limit Dispatch to one aircraft family.
• Assuming a type rating is useful at every airline.
• Ignoring the required average score.
• Opening an offer and letting the timer expire.
• Forgetting that Career scoring affects training outcomes.