Branch Pilot
VirginiaActive
- Exam
- Third-party exam
- Education
- None
- Experience
- Experience
- Background check
- Not reported
The Board for Branch Pilots licenses the pilots responsible for safe passage of ships in Virginia's major shipping lanes and waterways. The Circuit Courts of Hampton, Norfolk, and Portsmouth appoint individuals to the nine-member Board, which was created in 1783 and initially chartered by the King of England in the 1600s.
Requirements reported by the state
- Licence type
- Stand-alone license
- Exam
- Third-party exam required
- Education
- No education required
- Continuing education
- No continuing education requirement
- Certification
- No mention of certification
- Experience
- Experience
- Physical requirement
- Physical exam
Issuing body
- Department
- Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation
- Board
- Board for Branch Pilots
- Address
- 9960 Mayland Drive Suite 400 Richmond, VA 23233
- Phone
- (804) 367-8514
- Agency website
- https://www.dpor.virginia.gov/Boards/Branch-Pilots/
- Last updated
- August 11, 2023
Occupations (O*NET)
- Commercial Pilot 53-2011.00
- Commercial Pilot 53-2012.00
Source and verification
This record is Virginia's report to the Analyst Resource Center, published by CareerOneStop (October 2024 export). Everything shown comes only from that report.
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