The phrase "a pilot in command of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to aviation, specifically when referring to the pilot who has the ultimate authority and responsibility for the operation of an aircraft.
Example: "The regulations state that a pilot in command of the aircraft must ensure all safety protocols are followed."
Alternatives: "the pilot responsible for" or "the commanding pilot of".
"As far as the eye can see there will always be a pilot in command of an aircraft," says Lambert Dopping-Hepenstal, the director of ASTRAEA.
It wasn't much of a secret to investigators that the captain, 47-year-old Marvin Renslow, was not a pilot in command of his game from the moment the cockpit voice recorder was played and his motor-mouth monologue could be heard.
He had held a C certificate since 4 January 1993, and had been a pilot in command since 20 January.
She qualified as pilot in 1990 and was pilot-in-command of 48 dives.
(E) If the individual has been diagnosed with any medical condition that may impact the ability of the individual to fly, be under the care and treatment of a State-licensed physician when acting as pilot in command of an operation conducted under § 61.113(i).
The "Scooter" or "Bantam Bomber," as the A-4 was nicknamed, was equipped with analog controls that left the pilot in command of the attack plane's every twitch as he guided it down for what remains probably the toughest trick in flying: landing a jet airplane on the tiny deck of an aircraft carrier bobbing about in the ocean, scores of miles from land.
§ 91.5 Pilot in command of aircraft requiring more than one required pilot.
They were the family of Charles F. Burlingame III, known as Chic, the pilot in command of Flight 77, which was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11.
According to Sunjet Aviation records, the captain had accumulated a total of 4,280 hours of flight time (military and commercial) and had flown a total of 60 hours with Sunjet, 38 as a Learjet pilot-in-command and 22 as a Learjet second-in-command.
But Air Force pilots in command of UAVs have countered this assumption several times.
A ground-based Air Force pilot is in command of every drone flight, and has formal responsibility for any attack.
