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Sample Course Outline

Each task may take multiple flight sessions to understand and to meet the Practical Test Standards. 

  1. Introduction to flight and how the flight controls work.
  2. Learning the fundamentals of flight and how an aircraft flies level, turns, climbs and descends.
  3. Collision avoidance, integrating the fundamentals of flight with the aircraft instruments, using the radio.
  4. Controlling the aircraft in slow flight in preparation for landing.
  5. Learning ground reference maneuvers to develop a higher degree of skills in preparation for landing.
  6. Analyzing the effects of wind and other forces acting on the aircraft while landing.
  7. Basic safety concepts for non-normal situations to prevent them from become an emergency.
  8. Aeronautical knowledge pre-solo review with test questions. Your first flight without an instructor.
  9. Making good decisions and judgment calls. Methods of navigation and getting ready to fly cross country.
  10. Advanced methods of landing on short and soft field runways.
  11. Understanding airspaces, making a cross country plan, getting a weather briefing and fuel requirements
  12. Understanding weight and balance with the knowledge of its effect on aircraft performance.
  13. Short and long cross country flights with the instructor. Solo cross country flights planned in advance.
  14. Introduction to night flight.
  15. Long dual cross country night flight.
  16. Long solo cross country flight.
  17. Oral test preparation for the private pilot’s license.
  18. Practical flight test preparation for the private pilot license. 
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