What is a Type Rating?
A Type Rating qualifies you to operate a specific type of large transport aircraft, such as the Airbus A320 or the Boeing 737 NG, that requires its own dedicated certification beyond your licence.
Where your CPL and ratings prove you can fly professionally, a type rating proves you can operate one particular airliner to the manufacturer's and operator's standards. It is the qualification most directly associated with flying for an airline on a given fleet.
The type rating covers the Boeing 737 NG — the 737-700, 737-800 and 737-900. It does not cover the 737 MAX.
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How Training Works
Type-rating training follows a structured progression from aircraft-specific theory through full-flight simulator training to operator qualification.
Technical Ground Course
An intensive aircraft-specific ground course covering the type's systems, limitations, normal and non-normal procedures, and performance, to the depth required for safe crew operations.
Simulator Training
Full-flight simulator training on the specific aircraft type, covering standard operating procedures, crew coordination and the handling of normal and emergency situations to airline standards.
Line Training
Operator base and line training with the airline or operator, completing qualification on the type to their standards and requirements.
Training Structure
Type-rating training is built around the approved simulator syllabus for the specific aircraft type rather than general flight hours.
Examinations & Your Pilot Journey
To obtain your Type Rating (A320 – B737 NG), there are no written exams, so qualification is by the simulator skill test (licence proficiency check). This milestone sits on a structured aviation career path.
Type Skill Test
The type’s skill test / licence proficiency check in the simulator (and operator checks where applicable), conducted with a designated examiner.
Your Path Beyond PPL
Your progression follows a structured pathway toward becoming a professional airline pilot.
Who Can Apply from Egypt & the Gulf
To enrol in the Type Rating (A320 – B737 NG), you must hold the following prerequisite qualifications.
Valid CPL with Instrument Rating (IR) and Multi-Engine Rating (MER).
Class 1 medical certificate
English proficiency: ICAO English language proficiency, Level 4 minimum, is required.
Full requirements checklist
Hold a valid Commercial Pilot License (CPL) with Instrument Rating (IR) and Multi-Engine Rating (MER).
CBT (Computer-Based Training): interactive modules that introduce you to the aircraft's systems and controls.
CPT (Cockpit Procedures Training): learn the correct procedures for normal and emergency situations in the cockpit.
JOC (Jet Orientation Course): prepares pilots to move from piston or turboprop aircraft to jet operations.
LOFT (Line Oriented Flight Training): realistic flight scenarios on the Boeing 737 NG simulator.
FMC (Flight Management System familiarisation): training on the flight management system for correct navigation and operational planning.
Meet the requirements? The next step is your application.
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What You Can Do With a Type Rating
A Type Rating qualifies you to operate the specific aircraft type as a crew member.
Act as crew on the specific rated aircraft type
Tied to that type; another type needs its own rating
Not guaranteed by holding the rating alone
Time to Complete
40–50 days
Your training timeline depends on how consistently you train and how quickly you progress.
Training frequency
Student availability
Weather conditions
Learning pace
Boeing 737 NG & A320 Type Rating Cost: What the Price Depends On
The cost of obtaining an A320 / B737 NG Type Rating depends on your training pace, flight hours, and overall progression.
Your investment is tailored to your training plan.
Every student progresses differently, which means your total investment is influenced by how consistently you train and how efficiently you build your flight hours.
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Type Rating FAQs
Common questions about type rating training at SkyTeam Aviation.
What is a Type Rating?
Is it done in a simulator?
Does one type rating cover other aircraft?
Does it guarantee an airline job?
How much does a Boeing 737 NG type rating cost?
How much does an A320 type rating cost?
What pilots earn — and why we will not print a number here
Pay is the question everyone arrives with, and it is the one where most of what you will read online is invented. There is no single pilot salary. What a pilot is paid depends on the airline, the aircraft, the seat, the hours flown in a given month and the country the contract is written in — and most of the figures circulating online name no source at all.
So this page will not print one. What we will say is what the Type Rating changes about your position: it lets you operate a specific airliner type, which no general licence permits, and that is what moves you along the ladder that pay follows. We have written separately about how pilot pay is actually built up — basic, housing, flight-hour allowances — and why two pilots on the same licence can be paid very differently. Read that before you judge any number you are quoted.
Where this takes you
Sky Team is an admissions and placement office: we place students with a flight academy in South Africa, and the academy delivers the training under its own civil aviation authority. What you leave with is a licence recognised on that authority's terms — not a job offer, because no training provider anywhere can offer you one.
What the Type Rating does is open a specific door: it lets you operate a specific airliner type, which no general licence permits. We have Saudi students who have been through us and hold both the private and the commercial licence.
What comes after that is an airline's decision, not ours, and it turns on your hours, your ratings, your medical and your English. Anyone who tells you a training course comes with a seat at the end of it is selling you something we would not.
