Ground School

Private Pilot Ground School

Study toward your Private Pilot Certification

To earn your Private Certificate, the student needs to pass a written knowledge exam, an oral knowledge exam and a flight exam. We hold ground school sessions of 12-13 weeks / 2-hour classes each week, to assure that students acquire the knowledge to be safe and pass the knowledge components. Ground Schools are throughout the year, typically Saturday mornings 10a – 12p. Our 12-13 week ground school addresses a new subject area each week, giving you time to reinforce this new knowledge in your flight training. Learning to fly is like learning a new language. Each step along the way requires study. The harder you work on this knowledge component the faster you will succeed.

The technical subject areas include:

Aerodynamics & Stability

Weight and Balance calculations

Flight Instruments

Sectionals and Charts

Airports

Airspace Classifications and Use

Weather Forecasting and reports

Flight Planning

Performance Calculations

Advanced Navigation

Federal Regulations to learn

Multi-Engine Rating

A Multi-Engine Land (MEL) rating allows a pilot to operate as pilot-in-command of an aircraft with more than one engine.

Multi-Engine rated pilots will experience the remarkable improvement in aircraft performance capability along with an increase in speed, power, and rate of climb. Managing the complexity and workload of a multi-engine aircraft is both exhilarating and rewarding.

The multi-engine land rating is an “add-on” to an existing single-engine land private or commercial certificate. For this rating, both VFR and IFR operations will be emphasized. There are no minimum time requirements for the multi-engine land rating; however, you will need an instructor endorsement for flight and ground training prior to taking the checkride. There is no written exam, only an oral exam and practical checkride are required.

While a multi-engine rating can be added to a private or commercial pilot certificate. In most cases it makes more sense to wait until a pilot has a commercial pilot certificate and instrument rating as this will save the pilot a substantial amount of money in the long run.

Schedule

Current Session runs January 11th - April 5th 2025.

Saturday mornings 10a – 12p.

Full program costs only $250 and includes a Private Pilot test prep book and access to Prepware.

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" I did multi-engine training here and now an instructor here - the owner, the instructors, and the atmosphere are amazing! Everyone is so nice, knowledgeable and eager to share and pass their knowledge on to others. The owner, Jo, has a real deep care for every student. She also cares deeply for her employees. It's a family atmosphere. I am proud to be a part of it. And no, I am not prompted to say these nice things. It's the absolute truth and I'd shout it to the world for the rest of my days."

- Jack Cooperwasser