PRIVATE PILOT LICENSE
Have you looked to the skies and wondered what it would be like to fly your own plane? Do you want to experience freedom, excitement, and exploration? Have you thought about a career as a pilot? If you answered yes to any of these questions, or have other reasons to obtain your pilot’s license, contact us to schedule a discovery flight.
Achieving your pilot’s license gives you a true sense of achievement with benefits that will last a lifetime. If you are looking for a career change, know that job opportunities for pilots are plenty. You can have opportunities to fly for charter companies, flight schools, charitable organizations, corporations and the commercial airlines. As a private pilot, you can simply enjoy the fun and excitement of choosing your destinations, planning your flights, maybe even teach to pass on your love of flying.
At FlightGest Academy, our goal is to give you a structured and fun learning environment so you can develop your skills to be a SAFE and professional pilot.
PRIVATE PILOT LICENSE COURSE
Learn about basic aerodynamic concepts including stalls and spins, flight instruments, communications and radar services, VFR Charts, and elements of takeoffs and landings. Acquire an understanding of safety precautions, preflight preparation and decisions involved with managing potential flight risks.
Perform with minimal instructor assistance collision avoidance procedures, radio communications, basic visual maneuvers including turns, climbs, descents and straight and level flight and explore control by instrument reference. Also experience the sensations of approaching a stall and making correct recovery control inputs, discover how to correct for wind to achieve desired flight path, gliding, and start making takeoffs and landings.
Learn about airspace, weather minimums, reference publications, collision avoidance, wake turbulence, power plant operations, aircraft systems, Federal Aviation Regulations, and applicable NTSB regulations.
Begin steep turns, crosswind landings, go-arounds, crosswind takeoffs and landings, explore dealing with potential emergencies, expand skills with slow flight, stalls, ground reference maneuvers, and control by Instrument reference.
Learn to calculate weight and balance, predict aircraft performance, and become familiar with weather theory, reports, forecasts, graphical products, and recognition of critical weather hazards.
Build expertise with slow flight, steep turns, stalls, emergencies, ground reference maneuvers, normal landings, and forward slips. Explore short field and soft field takeoff and landing techniques.
Learn the elements of cross-country planning, in-flight pilotage and dead reckoning, the use of navigation systems, and procedures for safe night operations. Review airport signs and markings, weather planning, airspace, and systems emergencies. Gain techniques for preflight and in-flight risk management and employing personal minimums.
Exercise pilotage and dead reckoning procedures and the use of electronic systems in cross-country navigation. Become familiar with night operations and review emergencies and control by referring to the flight instruments.
Learn about the Airman Certification Standards and the role they will play in your practical test. Review Federal Aviation Regulations applicable to a Private Pilot in VFR operations.
Review and perform all the appropriate maneuvers of the current Private Pilot Airman Certification Standards at or exceeding the designated standards.
PRIVATE PILOT LICENSE
Have you looked to the skies and wondered what it would be like to fly your own plane? Do you want to experience freedom, excitement, and exploration? Have you thought about a career as a pilot? If you answered yes to any of these questions, or have other reasons to obtain your pilot’s license, contact us to schedule a discovery flight.
Achieving your pilot’s license gives you a true sense of achievement with benefits that will last a lifetime. If you are looking for a career change, know that job opportunities for pilots are plenty. You can have opportunities to fly for charter companies, flight schools, charitable organizations, corporations and the commercial airlines. As a private pilot, you can simply enjoy the fun and excitement of choosing your destinations, planning your flights, maybe even teach to pass on your love of flying.
At FlightGest Academy, our goal is to give you a structured and fun learning environment so you can develop your skills to be a SAFE and professional pilot.
PRIVATE PILOT LICENSE COURSE
Learn about basic aerodynamic concepts including stalls and spins, flight instruments, communications and radar services, VFR Charts, and elements of takeoffs and landings. Acquire an understanding of safety precautions, preflight preparation and decisions involved with managing potential flight risks.
Perform with minimal instructor assistance collision avoidance procedures, radio communications, basic visual maneuvers including turns, climbs, descents and straight and level flight and explore control by instrument reference. Also experience the sensations of approaching a stall and making correct recovery control inputs, discover how to correct for wind to achieve desired flight path, gliding, and start making takeoffs and landings.
Learn about airspace, weather minimums, reference publications, collision avoidance, wake turbulence, power plant operations, aircraft systems, Federal Aviation Regulations, and applicable NTSB regulations.
Begin steep turns, crosswind landings, go-arounds, crosswind takeoffs and landings, explore dealing with potential emergencies, expand skills with slow flight, stalls, ground reference maneuvers, and control by Instrument reference.
Learn to calculate weight and balance, predict aircraft performance, and become familiar with weather theory, reports, forecasts, graphical products, and recognition of critical weather hazards.
Build expertise with slow flight, steep turns, stalls, emergencies, ground reference maneuvers, normal landings, and forward slips. Explore short field and soft field takeoff and landing techniques.
Learn the elements of cross-country planning, in-flight pilotage and dead reckoning, the use of navigation systems, and procedures for safe night operations. Review airport signs and markings, weather planning, airspace, and systems emergencies. Gain techniques for preflight and in-flight risk management and employing personal minimums.
Exercise pilotage and dead reckoning procedures and the use of electronic systems in cross-country navigation. Become familiar with night operations and review emergencies and control by referring to the flight instruments.
Learn about the Airman Certification Standards and the role they will play in your practical test. Review Federal Aviation Regulations applicable to a Private Pilot in VFR operations.
Review and perform all the appropriate maneuvers of the current Private Pilot Airman Certification Standards at or exceeding the designated standards.
WHAT FLIGHTGEST ACADEMY STUDENTS SAY
"I randomly stopped by FlightGest during a road trip from Ohio to Florida in October, shortly after starting my PPL training in Ohio, and thankfully met Kirk for the first time! He gave me a tour of the flight school, TAC Air and showed me a handful of planes before throwing an abundance of information my way. Kirk's enthusiasm for a new student pilot who hadn't even committed to FlightGest proved that aviation is a passion for him. He made the most of my 30 minute stop, and I was sold on FlightGest. So much so that I packed all of my belongings to move down here from Ohio, strictly for FlightGest, after I passed my PPL checkride five months later."