How does the Flight Training look like?
EASA dictates that the Flight Training for the EASA PPL must take a minimum of 45 flight hours.
We do need to stress that all flight training is performance based — this simply means, that you will need to achieve a certain level of proficiency in each of the skills before you can progress to the next one. A significant factor that dictates how long your training will take (and, as the result, how much will it cost!) is how often you fly. In essence, the more often you can be available to fly, the shorter it will take!
The PPL Flight Training covers the following aspects:
- Familiarisation with the airplane
- Preparation for flight and securing the airplane after flight
- Air Experience flight
- Effects of Controls
- Taxiing, including taxi emergencies
- Straight and Level flight
- Climbing and Descending
- Turning
- Slow Flight, Stalling, Spin Avoidance
- Takeoff, Circuit, Approach and Landing, including emergencies
- Advanced Turning
- Forced Landing without power
- Precautionary Landing
- Cross-Country Navigation, including low-level navigation and basic use of Radio Navigation
- Basic Instrument Flight
Ground Briefings
Typically most of the flight lessons are preceded by a solid ground based briefing, during which we discuss the skills we’ll practice, safety aspects of the flight, the flight conduct and have a chance to answer any questions you might have. The flight is also followed by a debriefing, to discuss your performance paying attention to areas where some additional work may be required.