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Automation Squad

Role

AI for Commercial Pilots

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

Pilot and navigate the flight of fixed-wing aircraft on nonscheduled air carrier routes, or helicopters. Requires Commercial Pilot certificate. Includes charter pilots with similar certification, and air ambulance and air tour pilots. Excludes regional, national, and international airline pilots.

Commercial Pilots · O*NET 53-2012.00 · Job Zone 3 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

3 of 33tools on this list have an AI solution available today

Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.

AI you can use for this job

3 matched to the tools commercial pilots use. Showing 3.

  • Adobe Creative Cloud

    App

    Adobe Creative Cloud is a graphic design and video editing suite that enables businesses to publish print layouts, edit images, manage PDF documents, and collaborate with team members using various mobile and desktop applications.

  • PowerOffice

    App

    Make (make.com)

  • Scheduling Suite

    App

The tools this job actually uses

33 documented for this occupation. Showing 33, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Adobe Creative Cloud softwarehot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Aeronautical charts
  • AeroPlanner
  • Airdata
  • Airline Pilots Daily Aviation Log PPC
  • AirSmith FlightPrompt
  • ArduPilot Mission Planner
  • Calibration software
  • CloudCompare
  • doXstor Flight Level Logbook
  • Electronic aircraft information databases
  • ESRI Site Scan for ArcGIS
  • Flight simulation software
  • FLIR Thermal Studio Suite
  • Kitty Hawk
  • Litchi
  • LP360
  • MJICCS PilotLog
  • Navzilla
  • Nimblefeet Technologies Captain's Keeper
  • Notam Development Group Airport Insight
  • OpenDroneMap
  • Pilot Navigator Software Load Balance
  • Pix4D Pix4Dcapture
  • Pix4D Pix4Dmapper
  • Polaris Microsystems AeroLog Pro
  • Polaris Microsystems CharterLog
  • RMS Technology Flitesoft
  • SBS International Maestro Suite
  • Skylog Services Skylog Pro
  • Standard generalized markup language SGML
  • UgCS

What this job involves

25 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 24.

  1. Check aircraft prior to flights to ensure that the engines, controls, instruments, and other systems are functioning properly.
  2. Co-pilot aircraft or perform captain's duties, as required.
  3. Consider airport altitudes, outside temperatures, plane weights, and wind speeds and directions to calculate the speed needed to become airborne.
  4. Use instrumentation to pilot aircraft when visibility is poor.
  5. Monitor engine operation, fuel consumption, and functioning of aircraft systems during flights.
  6. Order changes in fuel supplies, loads, routes, or schedules to ensure safety of flights.
  7. Contact control towers for takeoff clearances, arrival instructions, and other information, using radio equipment.
  8. Plan flights according to government and company regulations, using aeronautical charts and navigation instruments.
  9. Start engines, operate controls, and pilot airplanes to transport passengers, mail, or freight according to flight plans, regulations, and procedures.
  10. Check baggage or cargo to ensure that it has been loaded correctly.
  11. Obtain and review data such as load weights, fuel supplies, weather conditions, and flight schedules to determine flight plans and identify needed changes.
  12. Conduct in-flight tests and evaluations at specified altitudes and in all types of weather to determine the receptivity and other characteristics of equipment and systems.
  13. Choose routes, altitudes, and speeds that will provide the fastest, safest, and smoothest flights.
  14. Write specified information in flight records, such as flight times, altitudes flown, and fuel consumption.
  15. Coordinate flight activities with ground crews and air traffic control, and inform crew members of flight and test procedures.
  16. Rescue and evacuate injured persons.
  17. Perform minor aircraft maintenance and repair work, or arrange for major maintenance.
  18. Supervise other crew members.
  19. Request changes in altitudes or routes as circumstances dictate.
  20. Instruct other pilots and student pilots in aircraft operations.
  21. File instrument flight plans with air traffic control so that flights can be coordinated with other air traffic.
  22. Fly with other pilots or pilot-license applicants to evaluate their proficiency.
  23. Plan and formulate flight activities and test schedules and prepare flight evaluation reports.
  24. Teach company regulations and procedures to other pilots.
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